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Photo O.
12 months agoCollaborator | Level 10
Share approval not working
I am having an issue with approving requests to share folders. 1. At our business (a photolab) we share folders of images of processed films with the customer who brought the film in for processing....
Photo O.
12 months agoCollaborator | Level 10
OK, here are a couple of screenshots
The first screenshot is the email we receive.
The top two links just open the page. The bottom one used to open the page as well, but on top of it was a dialog box with a rectangular blue "Approve Request" button. You click that, and the job was done.
The second screenshot is what we get now. No "Approve Request" button, and no amount of messing around with the box reveals one. As I said, we have to copy that email address in the email and go to where the folder to be shared is, and paste it into the existing share.
- Hannah12 months agoDropbox Staff
Thanks for the additional info and screenshots, Photo O..
Can you please try to copy the "approve request" link and open it in a different browser and/or an incognito/private browsing window, to see if this behavior persists?
- Photo O.12 months agoCollaborator | Level 10
It makes no difference (Firefox, Brave, Chrome or Edge). Excatly the same dialog box pops up.
I now also have another problem. Dropbox is continually spamming us with pop-ups offering to upgrade. One of them popped up in front of the dialog box I was expecting, just as I was about to click it. I have now bloody well upgraded to Dropbox Essentials without meaning to. Is there any way to STOP these annoying spam popups?
- Photo O.12 months agoCollaborator | Level 10
I have at least made one step forward.
If I click the cross on the right hand end of the email address in the "Share by email" input box in the dialog box screenshot I posted earlier, then I can retype the email address into the same input box, and the dialog box changes to look like this...
I can then click the "Send" box and it shares fine.
Going back the original dialog box I posted earlier, when I hover the mouse pointer over the email address in the "Share by email" input box, the pointer turns into a hand, which makes me think this is supposed to be a clickable link, but when I click it. nothing happens. Right clicking it reveals no useful options.
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