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.
Disable sync status icons & context menu injection
These sync status icons Dropbox app is generating while running, and forcibly, slowly serving them to Explorer without asking, are annoying. The context menu options, injected only when Dropbox app is running, are even more annoying. Status icons are significantly slowing down Explorer, and the context menu distortion messes with muscle memory. I'm catching myself turning off Dropbox entirely to avoid these, at which point it makes me consider if I shouldn't just switch to pCloud or something. How to turn them off? A toggle, a registry key, hex editing the Dropbox binary, I don't care. I need a way. For reference, pCloud:
I can't access the desktop settings to enable the autosaving of screenshots on Windows
when I downloaded dropbox onto my laptop, it prompted me to enable auto saving screenshots as jpeg, which has been quite helpful. however, I have not been able to enable that option on my pc, I can't access the settings, dropbox has a very useless article on how to enable this, but like I said, it is useless and full of wrong info, I can't open the "dropbox desktop app" in order to access the settings.
Moving files out of Dropbox defaults to copy except inside Dropbox
When I move files out of Dropbox to another folder on my computer, they are only copied, but not moved. When I move files between Dropbox folders, they do move. I am using Windows 10. This is a recent development, not sure if related to Windows update.Dropbox app is stuck on "starting" endlessly.
Hello, since Weeks i have the same Problem on my Windows Desktop App. Dropbox ist starting after reboot but it loads endlessly.... nothing happend I tried... Deaktivate Antivirus completley Reboot several Times Reinstall the App 6 times.. Remove all devices in Account but nothing changed... i always have the same bug maybee you have a solution for me... Best Regards!Possible bugs with Photo Files when selecting content inside the Dropbox folder.
Windows 11 Pro, OS build 22631.4602 Dropbox v214.4.5217 1) When I double click a photo to open it / download it locally within Dropbox in File Explorer it auto downloads the 2 photos to the left and 2 photos to the right. It doesn't happen every time, not exactly sure what the trigger is. 2) In a large folder with lots of photos if I right click to set as desktop background it works but jumps the placement of the scroll wheel to the top, losing my place within the folder.Dropbox stuck uploading and downloading on Windows
Dropbox has been happily working in the background for several years, keeping a useful backup of my important data, which I store in a folder named "Dropbox". However, without me noticing it stopped working about two weeks ago, so all the work I have done since then wasn't backed up. When I realised this I hovered on on the Dropbox icon at the bottom-right and it says "Indexing 40,023 files, Uploading 19,948 files, Downloading 23,138 files". I left it for several hours but nothing changed. Resource Monitor shows the Dropbox.exe is using 18% of CPU resourced and constanlt reading and writing file on the hard drive. I read that a possible solution is to open Dropbox >> Preferences >> Accounts, press Alt anywhere in the window then Fix Hardlinks and Fix permissions, but that makes no difference. I also tried re-booting the machine but that made no difference either. In desperation I uninstalled Dropbox then re-installed it. However, that was disasterous! it downloaded all my data from the cloud (which was several weeks out-of-date) and loaded it onto my laptop with today's date! Fotunately in many cases it retained the original folder, renamed named "xxx - copy" and created a new folder "xxx" with the downloaded data. I had to look through all my Dropbox folder, deleting each "xxx" folder and renaming "xxx - copy" to "xxx". Fortunately I also do a local backup every night of most of the folders in my Dropbox folder so I was able to restore some of my data from that. However, even after that the original problem still persists so Drobox isn't backing up. A further issue is that although I have set Dropbox preferences to Open Dropbox upon startup, it doesn't open at startup. Furthermore when I checked Startup Apps in Windows Control Panel it shows Dropbox as disabled. I re-enambled it, but next time I re-boot it is disabled again. What's gone wrong with Dropbox! How do I get it working again?
CertFindCertificateInStore failed with: (-2146885628) Cannot find object or property.
As multiple other users have already reported over the last couple years, I am seeing many of these error events in my Windows 10 Event Viewer, all coming from the DbxSvc(Dropbox service) event source. Can you all please fix your desktop client software to stop spamming my event logs with these errors? This issue has dragged on far, far too long already. Either stop emitting these errors, or fix the underlying problem. Thank you.
