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weirdkid47
Explorer | Level 4
1 year ago

Drag & drop photos from another web-page stopped working.

I've been using dropbox on web browser (tried chrome, safari, opera and brave) on my mac MacOS Ventura 13.6.7. I have tons of photos (mostly png and jpg) posted on my blogs (blogger, tumblr and wor...
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weirdkid47
Explorer | Level 4
1 year ago

Sure, of course.
This is Chrome, but it does the same on Safari, Opera and Brave.

 

1. open dropbox and a webpage with images

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. drag an image

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. drop the image to dropbox

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I used to upload photos from my blogs this way and can't think of anything I changed.

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Hannah
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1 year ago

Hey weirdkid47, thanks for the screenshots.

 

I just tried this on my end as well and it did work.

 

Can you please clear your browser's cache and try again?

 

Let me know what you see.

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    weirdkid47
    Explorer | Level 4
    1 year ago

    Thanks for your reply.

    I cleared cache and tried again, on chrome, safari and brave, but these all show the popup and do not upload the photo.

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      Rich
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      1 year ago

      I just tested it on Windows/Firefox and it does the same. It tries to create a new shortcut, rather than upload the image to Dropbox.

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      Hannah
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      1 year ago

      Thanks for checking guys.

       

      weirdkid47 can you let me know when you first noticed this behavior?

       

      Also, which browser releases/versions are you using? 

       

      Are you getting the same behavior on Incognito/private browsing windows as well?

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        weirdkid47
        Explorer | Level 4
        1 year ago

        I guess I first noticed it last weekend, so sometime around 21st June.

         

        My current browsers are;
        Chrome Version 126.0.6478.63
        Safari Version 16.6
        Brave Version 1.67.119
        I'm using these on MacOS Ventura 13.6.7.

         

        Just tried on incognito mode but it does the same, only creates a new shortcut and doesn't upload any image.

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