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Dropbox on Android suddenly unable to open Text / .MD file
I ve a shared folder on my android 11 (kernel 4.4.177) in there ive a text file FILE.txt , which i renamed File.MD (markdown) so i can share with my usual note editor on MAC. it has been working perf...
For the longest time, Dropbox app opened text files (as in .txt files) just fine, allowing me to edit them -- which was very handy for such things as a shared grocery list between my wife and I. I could delete things as I added them to my cart. Then about 6+ months ago, it defaulted to some internal (?) program to let me read them and I had to go back and force it to "open with " to get to an editor. (Oddly, it wouldn't show me what was opening it, it just did).
Now, as of a couple days ago, an actual editor option is gone altogether. It only offers me two choices: an HTML Text Viewer (not editor, viewer only) or my browser (Brave). I have not added, removed, or disabled any apps on my phone.
Has text become so advanced and complicated that it can no longer be opened and edited by anything? What gives, Dropbox?
If an "update" (how I loathe them -- more trouble than they are worth) is causing this, how do I revert to an older version?
Any ideas on what's causing this? I prefer not to download yet another app to fix an unnecessary problem in the DB app that shouldn't have been messed up to begin with.
Thanks in advance.
- Jay
Dropbox Staff
Hi TheRealGandalf, I've merged you to this post, could you try these steps to see if they help?
This isn't helpful. You merge me into a thread with 50 replies, most of which are DB staff saying how important this issue is, that they're aware of it, and yet it's a thread from 8 months ago with no resolution. So much for importance or doing something about it. And I'm not the only one. You (or some DB staff) merged others into this and also complained that's the only help they get.
IF there's a solution why not simply reply to the original post (meaning my original or the others so merged) with a link to the answer. Instead, I have to scroll through 50 replies in hopes of finding the answer that, if there is one, would be a lot easier to just point that ONE answer out. Instead, now you've dropped me here, there are 51 comments.Customer service is a lost art. I have to wonder, due to the lack of usefulness, if all these mergings/oh-it's-so-important-to-us's are just autobots.
Wow.
