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sgrya1's avatar
sgrya1
Helpful | Level 6
6 years ago

SOLVED: Dropbox App unexpectedly quit on Windows 10

I get an error when I try to open the Dropbox app saying "Dropbox unexpectedly quit. Your files are safe. Restart Dropbox..."

It started about two weeks ago (and around the same time as two other unsolved posts on the forum). 

Two days ago I formatted my computer and reinstalled programs. This morning I opened the computer and saw the same error.

Running Windows 10. Does anyone have any suggestions?

  • Hi,

    It turned out to be a problem with a program that monitors software licenses. I contacted the maker of the program who produced a software update to fix it.

    To troubleshoot the problem I disabled all the services then started turning them back on untill dropbox stopped working again.

    System Configuration>Services>

    Check Hide all Microsoft Services

    Disable All

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

    Hello sgrya1 - welcome to the Dropbox Community!

    I'm sorry to hear you're having issues with our desktop app on your computer. Could you give a simple re-install a go and let me know if you still get this error? 

    Thanks in advance!

    • sgrya1's avatar
      sgrya1
      Helpful | Level 6

      Hi Walter,

      No luck with that. I got a message saying that 83.4.152 had been successfully installed.

      It tried to launch then failed with the same previous error.

  • katrisone's avatar
    katrisone
    Explorer | Level 3

    Hello,

     

    not sure where to put this issue. Anyway - I have w10, dropbox every half an hour returns this message: [removed per the Community's Guidelines]. It is very annoying and also I need to keep dropbox opened ideally all the time (my students are uplading hand histories from poker tracker - Holdem Manager 3, I am trying to amtomatically import them to mine). It not only shut downs often but it seems that it afftect the whole process (missing files at both ends etc..).

     

    I tried I think everything - rebooting, reinstalling, delinking from my account back and forth, opening as admin, allowing it in firewall, updating everything including windows...

     

    Any other recommendation? 

     

    Thx

    • Megan's avatar
      Megan
      Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

      Hey katrisone, welcome to our Community! 

       

      For security issues I wasn't able to access your link. Could you attach a screenshot of the error you receive on your next reply? 

       

      Keep me posted, and we'll take it from there. 

  • katrisone's avatar
    katrisone
    Explorer | Level 3

     

    Hello,

     

    not sure where to put this issue. Anyway - I have w10, dropbox every half an hour returns message above. It is very annoying and also I need to keep dropbox opened ideally all the time (my students are uplading hand histories from poker tracker - Holdem Manager 3, I am trying to amtomatically import them to mine). It not only shut downs often but it seems that it afftect the whole process (missing files at both ends etc..).

     

    I tried I think everything - rebooting, reinstalling, delinking from my account back and forth, opening as admin, allowing it in firewall, updating everything including windows...

     

    Any other recommendation? 

     

    Thx (btw tried to reply in my recent post but the "Reply" button is disabled).

    • Walter's avatar
      Walter
      Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

      Hey katrisone, sorry to hear you're still having issues with this.

       

      Could you please try an advanced reinstall and let us know how it goes?

       

      Just make sure to remove any devices that might be putting you over your account's limit from your Security page, if you're on the Basic plan that is. 

       

      PS: I moved your post under your recent post for clarity. 

  • katrisone's avatar
    katrisone
    Explorer | Level 3
    I cant reply again so I have to create new thread. I was trying to do proper uninsall accordingly to manual you posted.

    There were 3 folders mentioned i need to delete from register. I found just the third one.

    After that my PC crashed complely, now I cant start and probably I need to reinstall whole windows and who knows what else that advice did, replying now from mobile obv.

    Really dont understand why do you even have these advices in manual when it could do so much damage. I cant even express how upset I am right now.
    • Nancy's avatar
      Nancy
      Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

      Hi katrisone, I’m sorry to hear about this. 

       

      If you wish, I can open a ticket for you, so that our support team can look into this further and assist. 

       

      Let me know if you’re OK with that, and l can message you to the email address that’s tied to your Community profile here.

  • Owltiger's avatar
    Owltiger
    Helpful | Level 6

    Hi all

    Two days ago I cleaned up and reorganized my local Dropbox on my desktop.  For what it's worth I've been using Dropbox on all five of the computers in our family, this is the primary one that stores "all" of the Dropbox folders while the rest have subsets (only 1-4 folders).

    After the cleanup, which moved, and deleted quite a few files, I noticed that Dropbox had "quit unexpectedly."  I restarted it several times and each time received the same "Dropbox quit unexpectedly," message.

    I have tried the following solutions suggested on the website:

    * Restarted system

    * Reinstalled Dropbox completely

    * logged all other systems out of Dropbox and repeated both of the above

    * Restarted about ten more times.

    * Grown increasingly frustrated

    * Backed up the "corrected (with changes) Dropbox folders to a spare drive to prevent any data loss

     

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I'm at the point where I may need to delete and start over again, which would take a few days.

    • Megan's avatar
      Megan
      Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

      Hi Owltiger, welcome to our Community! 

       

      How many files do you have synced to your device? Is it possible that you might have exceeded the soft 300K limit

       

      Are you able to maybe remove some folders using selective sync, in order to check if the same behavior will happen then?

       

      Keep me posted on the results! 

    • Owltiger's avatar
      Owltiger
      Helpful | Level 6

      For some reason I could not reply directly to your comment.

      Yes, my system has well over 300k, and has been over that limit for years (I have a rather robust PC).  Unfortunately, I have been unable to remove anything in selective sync because as soon as the application starts up and I go to click on the options it crashes into the same error message.  

      • Megan's avatar
        Megan
        Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

        Hi Owltiger, thanks for the speedy reply. 

         

        Can you try one more thing? If you have the stable version already running on your computer, could you temporarily disable your antivirus and ensure that you've configured your firewall to work with Dropbox? 

         

        Maybe that will do the trick. 

  • dragomirradev's avatar
    dragomirradev
    Helpful | Level 6

    I recently upgraded DropBox to a 4 TB plan. My folders contain about 4,000,000 files. Some of them were added recently.

    Since the upgrade, DropBox cannot complete the updating process. As a result, I have files on four different devices that are not in sync.
    I am leaving for a conference in a couple of days and, instead of working on my presentations, I am stuck trying to restart, reinstall, and reboot stuff.

    It starts by saying that it is indexing 4M files, then over the course of 2 days, the number drops significantly, e.g., to 350,000 or even to 10,000, then DropBox crashes and leaves a message saying "DropBox unexpectedly quit. Your files are safe...". I've looped from reinstall to restart to this error message more than 10 times over the past week, on multiple devices.

    I repeatedly reinstalled everything and rebooted.

    I am willing to delete some files and/or stop synchronizing some directories but I don't know where to start. I tried removing the most recently added directories and then restarting DropBox but that didn't make a difference.

    Please help. I am spending entire days on this and I cannot get back to my work.

    Thanks.

    Drago

    • Megan's avatar
      Megan
      Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

      Hi dragomirradev, I'd be happy to help! 

       

      You mentioned that your Dropbox account contains 4 million files. It's important to keep in mind that the app has a soft limit of 300K files. 

       

      Now, if I were you, I'd use selective sync in order to offload the app, and the device itself. Can you give this one a go, and let me know of any updates? 

       

      Also, what is the version of the app that you have installed to your device?

       

      Keep me posted! 

      • dragomirradev's avatar
        dragomirradev
        Helpful | Level 6

        DropBox keeps sending me ads to increase my storage space from 1 TB to 2 TB to 3 TB to 4 TB. 

        So, I recently did that and added more files. Now the question is how to remove some of them so that DropBox restarts. 

         

        I am using 157.4.4808

         

        I am not even able to do selective sync properly since the app keeps crashing.

         

        I tried deleting a large directory with 1.6M files but even this is taking more than 48 hours. The numbers right below haven't changed in hours. I don't know why the status report says "Uploading" given that these are files that I am removing (on linux) from the DropBox directory.

         

        tangra:~% dropbox status
        Syncing 886,339 files
        Uploading 886,336 files...

         

        All in all, I've spent more *than 60 hours* of personal time over the last few days dealing with this, inc,luding 15 hours each day on Saturday and Sunday. It has been a disaster. I am supposed to be working on a presentation for a conference. I am leaving today and I haven't been able to work on the presentation because of all these problems.

         

        Please help me out! Can you please remove that huge directory directly from the server?

         

        Drago


        Downloading 3 files...

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