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noel envoide
Explorer | Level 4
6 months ago

What's the difference between the desktop app offered on the Microsoft Store and Dropbox Lite?

There's a dropbox lite (released 2013), and dropbox beta (released 2020) in the Microsoft store.  I ran across a thread that the desktop app was discontinued in 2022, but I just downloaded an executa...
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AbhishekDBX
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6 months ago

Hi - The Dropbox app for Windows can be downloaded from our website (dropbox.com/downloads) or a beta version that we've recently added to the MS App Store as you indicated.

The Lite version is a reader/viewer only version of the app but for most use cases, we recommend the full version.

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