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chanan1967's avatar
chanan1967
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Connection Issues: Computer is currently offline

After uninstalling and reinstalling the dropbox app, I could not get the desktop app to connect back to my account. It would keep getting me the message: "computer is currently offline", even though ...
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Graham's avatar
Graham
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3 years ago

Hi chanan1967,

 

Thanks for visiting the Dropbox Community! We really appreciate you sharing this fix with us and hope it will help some other members in the future. Just to give this a little bit of content, which may help others using it effectively in the future, you say you had just uninstalled and reinstalled Dropbox before you saw the message "your computer is currently offline". What was it that prompted you to do the reinstall?

 

Thanks again for sharing, and have a great day!

Graham

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