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Halil A.'s avatar
Halil A.
New member | Level 1
9 years ago
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Cannot establish a secure connection

Your computer will compare your system date to the expiration date of our SSL certificate. If your system time is stuck in the past or so far in the future that it is outside of Dropbox's SSL certifi...
  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    8 years ago

    There isn't anything for Dropbox to fix. Issues such as this are almost always caused by something specific to the computer, and are not a wider Dropbox issue that they have control over.

    Possible causes are antivirus or firewalls interfering with the connection, incorrect date and time settings, etc. See the following help article for more information.

    https://help.dropbox.com/sync/files-not-syncing 

  • wdalston's avatar
    wdalston
    8 years ago

    In updated and related news, I went into settings and turned off Proxy. Bingo! Now DropBox is updating automatically. (This despite the corporate firewall that evidently exists, or maybe I just imagined that.)

     

    Either way, your suggestions are much appreciated.