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claireb1
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago
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I cannot see my device to sign out of it

Hi I use four devices on Dropbox. Whenever I want to use the 4th device I sign out of one. This has worked for years. However, just recently I found I cannot sign out of my main computer it is alwa...
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  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    2 years ago

    Thanks for the reply, Claire.

     

    You don't need to quit the Dropbox app on your desktop, but sign out of it. Signing out will unlink the computer, if it's linked to the account.

     

    Can you try and let me know if it works?

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Hannah
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2 years ago

Thanks for the screenshot, Claire!

 

Have you tried manually signing out of the Dropbox application on that computer, to see if that helps?

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claireb1
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Hi Hannah

 

I can quit on the icon at the top of my screen. But in my finder on my Mac desktop, I still have access to Dropbox. I have restarted my Mac Desktop. So there is nowhere I can quit as it does not show up when I try to log in with a 4th machine and try to log out of the desktop.

 

Interestingly, when I try to log in with a 4th device, it should show the three linked, but it doesn't show the desktop. It shows 3 of 3 devices connected, the laptop and the iPhone, and when trying to log in with the iPad, it says that the iPad is linked, but it is not.

That is the one I am trying to log in with. And it still does not show the desktop that has access to Dropbox.

Very confused 

  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
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    2 years ago

    Thanks for the reply, Claire.

     

    You don't need to quit the Dropbox app on your desktop, but sign out of it. Signing out will unlink the computer, if it's linked to the account.

     

    Can you try and let me know if it works?

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    claireb1
    Explorer | Level 4
    2 years ago

    Hi

    So I did what you asked. And now I have my iPhone, iPad and MacBook logged into Dropbox. Dropbox has disappeared from the finder on my iMac, but I can log into it from the web. It means that the documents from Dropbox are no longer stored on my iMac. This is a different setup but probably better as I don't need to logout from anything. Correct?

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    claireb1
    Explorer | Level 4
    2 years ago

    Thanks for this. I did what you said and also reinstalled the Dropbox app on my iMac, and now I can see all linked devices again. Thanks again for your help.

     

    Best wishes

    Claire

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