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pamchromebook
2 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Slow opening of Dropbox files on a new Chromebook
I switched to a chromebook this month from a pc. I use dropbox for all my storage. I have setup dropbox in my folders and get to my dropbx files. but they open very slowly. I have also used google...
- 2 years ago
I know this is an old post but I was having the same problem on my ASUS Chromebook (2022 version) and found a way to make the files load faster and appear with thumbnails. First, I deleted and reloaded the Dropbox App in order to assure I had the most recent version. I then went into the App Info Settings and set it to open in Dropbox instead of the default Chrome Browser setting. These simple steps seemed to have solved the problem for me and I hope it does for you or anyone else who stumbles across this post as I did.
pamchromebook
Explorer | Level 3
Online only
Jay
2 years agoDropbox Staff
Are you able to mark them as offline, so that the files are locally stored and thus faster to open?
- pamchromebook2 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Sorry, no
This is a chromebook it has limited memory and is meant to use cloud only
- Nancy2 years agoDropbox Staff
pamchromebook, is it possible to make just a few files offline (that are small in size), and then try to access them again? This will help us isolate the issue more.
Thanks!
- pamchromebook2 years agoExplorer | Level 3
we will try wednesday morning
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