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Iron-Duke
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago

Edit text files

Dropbox newbie.   How can I edit a text file through my Google Chrome browser, Dropbox web page?  
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    4 years ago
    Iron-Duke wrote:

    How can I edit a text file through my Google Chrome browser, Dropbox web page?

    You can't. You need to download the file to your computer, edit it in a text editor and then re-upload it.

Lenwe's avatar
Lenwe
Helpful | Level 5

This sucks. We can edit super complex files such as Excel spreadsheets, Word and PDF documents and not TXT files ??? 

 

Come on, it's just plain text, it can't be simpler than that. We don't want a complex editor such as Notepad++ (which would be a banger) but at least something similar to Windows' notepad.exe with just copy/paste/save and character encoding selection.

 

We're in 2022 guys, this feature has been requested since 2015.

 

Walter's avatar
Walter
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2 years ago

Hey Lenwe, thanks for your feedback on this.

 

I just wanted to mention that there's an idea about this posted here, in case you'd like to take a look and upvote it to show your interest too.

  • Lenwe's avatar
    Lenwe
    Helpful | Level 5
    2 years ago

    I already upvoted the idea ticket but it was closed and it's still not implemented. IMO there is a real need for this and AFAIK it should not be too complicated to do.

  • onewil's avatar
    onewil
    Collaborator | Level 8
    10 months ago

    Hi Walter, unfortunately it looks like you've closed/archived several posts requesting this feature. That's disappointing! A lot of us are requesting this. Is there a single useful way we could highlight this need to people above you and help get it some attention? 

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