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mike m.10
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

PDF Preview functionality - how to disable?

I really, really dislike the Dropbox PDF preview functionality. It served my needs much better to have the PDF I click on in Dropbox open directly in Acrobat Reader. Is there a way to switch the PDF ...
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pcrecovery
New member | Level 2
8 years ago

FWIW, i also have an Anchor (syncedtool) account and I love it.   You can actually customize the entire experience and I was able to disable file preview.   I hope that dropbox follows suit and allows disabling previews...i keep getting emails daily from customers saying "the file doesn't open" simply because there is javascript in the html and they expect the preview to display correctly (this is for small simply HTML-based file listings).  I have to constantly tell them to DOWNLOAD the HTML file, then open it on their device...very annoying.

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