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Lexigon5
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Viewing from desktop

Viewing from desktop

 

Hello everyone.

I used to be able to view my my dropbox account from clicking the dropbox app icon on my desktop as opposed to having to go into my browser.

But now clicking the app icon just opens up the drive where the dropbox folders are stored.

this was usefull for viewing stared files only instead of all the sifting and clicking to get to the files I want.

 

Anyone know how I can get back the desktop view of my online account ?

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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    2 years ago
    Lexigon5 wrote:

    I used to be able to view my my dropbox account from clicking the dropbox app icon on my desktop as opposed to having to go into my browser.

    That functionality was removed over a year ago. It's no longer available.

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
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    2 years ago
    Lexigon5 wrote:

    I used to be able to view my my dropbox account from clicking the dropbox app icon on my desktop as opposed to having to go into my browser.

    That functionality was removed over a year ago. It's no longer available.

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