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Cassie2024
Explorer | Level 3
2 months ago

My Dropbox app won't open on Windows 11; the Dropbox icon no longer shows in the system tray.

A few days ago, I logged out of Dropbox on my computer, and now I can't open the application anymore. There's no icon in the system tray, and clicking on the Dropbox application on my computer does n...
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Cassie2024's avatar
Cassie2024
Explorer | Level 3

no, the computer just showed its loading something then nothing happened. i have checked the task manager and the dropbox showed for very short time there then disappeared

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Nancy
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2 months ago

Hi from me as well, Cassie2024. Have you also tried an advanced reinstall of the Dropbox app?

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    Cassie2024
    Explorer | Level 3
    2 months ago

    i tried it just now and now the dropbox icon show up again. thank you

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