About Elixir

It is no longer possible to click on the ellipsis using the mobile site. The mobile website always behaves as if you trying to select a group of files or takes you directly to one file without allowing you to see any of the drop down options normally when clicking the ellipsis. Right now the only work around is to request the desktop site within a mobile browser or to use another cloud service (aka take business elsewhere.) Dropbox download links also no longer work on Instagram (one of my primary messaging platforms for sharing files with clients) instead it attempts to stream the file directly to VLC or another internal media player app without providing any ability to download it. I recently had Dropbox business. Don't have it anymore. Definitely won't be resubscribing as long as these are issues. ... View more

Hey @MacMike, thanks for sharing your thoughts on this! From what I could find, this hasn't been shared in our dedicated area of the Community yet. I found something similar here, to request an option for disabling comments for all files in your account, if you'd like to check it out and give it a vote. If you'd like it to be more specific (like on a per folder basis) then I can suggest sharing a new request for this from here. If there's anything else that I can help with in the meantime, please feel free to nudge me here. Wishing you a great day ahead! ... View more

Would this work if I reformatted only my system drive (dropbox is synced to another drive) Reinstall Dropbox (latest) and point the sync directory to the old one? I did this before on another PC and it never stops "indexing" the icon remains on sync with thousands of files but never really changes so I can't see if any new downloading files are actually being downloaded or not. We are talking terrabytes of data. Wanting to know if I have to redownload all or will indexing work with latest version? Thanks ... View more

You've got mail @egleh!    I used the email address associated with your Communituy profile to help you further with this.  Happy Friday! ... View more

What about someone(me) who has not previously downloaded the older version. I just pulled this iPad2 out of the closet to use it for a specialized application that I design and develop on a W10 PC. The executable file is then deposited on my Dropbox account and I need to download it from there to my iPad2. Is there another way to get to an older version? ... View more

they've invented online sync to cover this issue of HDD space. BUT Some programmes don't like this though because of the dealy causing time-outs ... View more

Hey @Matthew S.34, I'm sorry to hear that! Do you perhaps have the desktop app set to start on system start up? If the app starts before the drive is correctly mounted, then this could be the reason this occurs. If you haven't already, I might suggest turning off the Dropbox app from starting on system start up so that it can be launched manually once the drive is mounted. Let me know if this helps at all! ... View more

I have no choice but to look for an alternative. Too much time lost in trying to get it to work again... ... View more