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I'm using the Dropbox app in a Pixelbook, and until today, I used to be able to open pdf files using Xodo Docs by clicking on the three vertical dots on the right of the file names. For some reason, the "Open with" option in the dialog has disappeared, and I have been unable to recover it.
The dialog looks like this now: http://bit.ly/2ErF8dM
I have uninstalled and reinstalled the Dropbox app, to no avail.
I have even done a factory reset of the Pixelbook, but when I log into my Google account, the setup process automatically re-installs all the apps I had in the previous iteration of Pixelbook.
This leads me to believe that my Google account has created a mirror image of the "profile" or "setting" files of the corrupted Dropbox app, reintroduces them to the machine after the factory reset.
Is there a way to remove every single file (especially profile) associated with the Dropbox app? Uninstalling Dropbox via Play Store simply removes the app, but if I reinstall it, and open and log in to Dropbox, everything looks like before, including the "Recents" menu (with the files recently opened).
Incidentally, this is not a specifically pdf issue. The dialog looks the same if I try to open a *.docx file, for instance.
Thanks for your help.
recents menu doesnt work properly now either
"Open With" now appears in the window that opens after I tap on the three bars on the right, and if I select Open With, the file opens in my default app. I'm assuming that's the result of a Dropbox update that my Samsung tablet installed automatically. However, the "Just Once/Always" window doesn't appear, and Dropbox still doesn't honor default app the way it used to.
In the past, checking "Always" set the default for a file type--say, pdf to illustrate. After doing that, the next time, all that was necessary was to click on or tap the pdf file in Dropbox. Dropbox opened the pdf in the default app. There was no need to use the "three bar/Open With" process.
Now, the "three bar/Open With" process is needed each time. The file will open in my default app--a two-step process, instead of a one-step process. Simply tapping the file opens it in the Dropbox viewer.
Note that, in Dropbox settings>Manage defaults, the app that I want as the default is shown. Open With launches that app. Tapping the file itself does not.
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