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I use Word almost every day for creating simple documents, and for the most part it works fine.
Yesterday it suddenly began crashing when I try to save a new document in a Dropbox folder.
Steps for crash: Open Word. Open New document. Type something. Press Save. Save dialogue opens. Select or navigate to a Dropbox folder from the list of folders. Save dialogue briefly opens the folder then Word crashes.
The only thing that has changed is I've just installed 10.13.2 plus the 10.13.2 supplemental update. It could be one of them causing the crash. Or a new Dropbox update - I don't know if my Dropbox version was updated that day. Restarting doesn't help.
Word does NOT crash if I save to the Desktop folder, or to external drives or USB sticks.
System: Macbook Air 2013 13", OSX 10.13.2,
Word for Mac 2011 fully updated. Word Version 14.7.7 (1708905)
Dropbox personal user, version v41.4.80, Finder Integration is turned off. 87% of 10.9GB used.
Also have iCloud 2TB storage / backup turned on for all my files, working since last Nov.
If I navigate, in the Word Save dialog, to non-Dropbox folders, all goes well. Navigating to any Dropbox folders causes Word to crash. Strange.
I quit Dropbox and tested Word. Still crashing. I turned off Dropbox's 'Start on boot' option and restarted, and tested Word. Still crashing.
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