You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
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Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffStable Build 168.4.4802
Thanks for using Dropbox! The desktop client is regularly updated with many improvements and fixes including the following:
Fixes in this update:
Fixed an issue that prevented users from ...
I am having the same issue on windows 7 pro. If I install the previous version everything works perfectly but then it auto-updates and stops working again.
I contacted tech help and they said it’s because the new build requires windows 8 or higher and there’s no way to stop it from updating. I’m going to have to look for another alternative service as I can’t update my computers to use later versions of Windows as I have specialty equipment/programs that only work with Windows 7 or pro. I wish they had given us a proper heads up about this or atleast give us the option to not update so we can keep the older Dropbox version and continue to use that. If anyone knows how we can turn off auto updating if possible, that would be helpful!
I have the same problem as you with Windows 7 and version 168.4.4802 since a few days.
I completely uninstalled Dropbox on my computer.
I installed a portable version DropboxPortableAHK (Link https://nionsoftware.com/dbpahk/download)
Now, it seems to work fine again.
Just have to add manually DropboxPortableAHK to the startup manager.
It is my solution to avoid the obsolescence of Dropbox with Windows 7.
