Re: Dropbox on Android suddenly unable to open Text / .MD file

Welcome aboard the forum, andrew222651!

Did you notice this behavior after an update on your device? 

What’s the app version that your Dropbox app’s running at the moment?

Keep me posted for any updates.

Hi,

The Dropbox app version is 321.1.4. There was an Android security update on March 5, I'm not sure if that's when the problem started.

Thanks for clarifying! 

Now, it sounds like your Dropbox app is currently on the beta app version (321.1.4).

Can you please follow these steps to opt out of early releases on your device, and then install the latest stable app version of Dropbox? 

I’d like to see if you’ll notice any difference there.

Hi, same issue with the stable version

Hi andrew222651, thanks for letting us know about this! 

Feel free to check Graham's response above. Our engineers are aware and looking closely into this. We'll make sure to update the thread, once we have more info on this. 

Thank you for your patience! 

Hi, it's been 3 weeks since this issue was first raised, and we still haven't heard anything back.

Is anyone following through? Can we get any updates or ideas of what to expect, i.e. is this a difficult problem that will take one year to solve? Or is it not a priority and won't ever be addressed?

Who is in charge of such issues, and who do I contact to request that it be addressed?

Has anyone else here found a good alternative to Dropbox, paid or not, that allows easy touch-and-go Android access to synced MD files? Thanks everyone else.

My former workflow was: while on the go open .md in dropbox, use the speech-to-text to write stuff, save it - back at home open Obsidian and manage the content

now it's : record a vocal on Telegram, send it to myself, and back home listen to it and add to obsidian.

take more time, but it s not a vital issue for me.

Hi all and happy Monday!

I just wanted to give you an update on this as we've heard back from the team and it seems that this issue should be fixed with the most recent beta version of the mobile app.

For anyone interested, you can have a look here for more information. 

I just switched to the beta version. Opening .md files does indeed work again!

Thanks for the update, and thank you dev team. The beta looks like it has fixed the issue. Hopefully the beta gets pushed to public soon for everyone.

Seems like the issue was fixed with todays update of the public app (version 324.2.2). Thanks to the dropbox team and happy editing :-).

It's looking like perhaps the issue is fixed today...? This afternoon direct tapping files automatically opens them in some sort of viewer but the option to open text AND HTML files in Dropbox Text Editor appears when tapping the three dots. I have yet to try editing/saving an HTML file in this manner so I may report back later if there's a problem but it looks good!