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dropbox crashes every now and then and fails to start also every now and then.
i ve tried everything mentioned in the community exept advanced reinstall it doesnt let me click on WINDOWS option arrow, dont know why so i couldnt do it. i ve uninstalled it installed it again check my drives for errors everything, unlink re link etc as mentioned at your community but the problem still persists. i didnt change a thing in my avast or comodo programs, a frined of mine has exactly the same Avirus and firewall progs and dropbox works fine. i ve tried disabling all shields of Avirus and firewall closed still nothing
after a couple of restarts of drobox/crashes then it starts working normally (then again it may crash at some point). how do i do advanced reinstalling if i canot click on the windows tab? https://help.dropbox.com/installs/advanced-reinstall
seems to be working ok! i ll test it for a couple of days though. thnx
Hey there @andreas781, sorry to hear about this.
Could you try downloading and installing the offline installer of the desktop app from this page?
Let me know how it goes!
Walter
Community Moderator @ Dropbox
dropbox.com/support
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seems to be working ok! i ll test it for a couple of days though. thnx
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