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lensilva
8 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Refreshing screen on Excel and Word - Windows 7
I recently started having a problem with Excel where frequent screen refresh (about every 4 seconds) was interfering with work. The same thing was happening in Word.
After many hours of troubleshoo...
- 8 years ago
Hi all,
Many apologies as always for any delay in responding. We have some great engineers working on the Dropbox badge and one of them put together a fix that is included in this version:
Apologies for any inconvenience caused here. We're always keeping our eye out here, so as soon as we saw your reports, and the threads start to flair, we started investigating. The result of the investigation is a fix that is included in the above version.
Many thanks all for your participation here in the community, you help us make a better product.
Keep the ideas coming and keep highlighting anything you spot.
Ross S.
tovarishrob
8 years agoNew member | Level 2
When the desktop app is active all MS Office 2016 applications suffer witht he dropdown menus disappearing prematurely. Error started occuring on 16 or 17 Aug 2017 (following a DB update?) My only workaround is to shut down the DB desktop app.
- Sanchez8 years agoDropbox StaffHey tovarishrob, welcome to our forum!I've moved your post here, so you (and we) can keep an eye on this issue's progress.Yeah, this is a small bug that our team is aware of, and currently working on. In the meantime, you don’t have to exit our app entirely, you can just disable the Dropbox Badge.Cheers
- Ross_S8 years agoDropbox Staff
Hi all,
Many apologies as always for any delay in responding. We have some great engineers working on the Dropbox badge and one of them put together a fix that is included in this version:
Apologies for any inconvenience caused here. We're always keeping our eye out here, so as soon as we saw your reports, and the threads start to flair, we started investigating. The result of the investigation is a fix that is included in the above version.
Many thanks all for your participation here in the community, you help us make a better product.
Keep the ideas coming and keep highlighting anything you spot.
Ross S.
- rsgreen8 years agoNew member | Level 2
This beta version did not work for me out of the box. I had to disable the badge ("never show") in order to correct the problem.
- stoneface8 years agoNew member | Level 2
Small bug. Yup, a small bug that completely kills productivity. I only lost a few hours before identifying DB as the culprit, after which I searched for the DB solution (DB Badge).
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