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stephenroberts999
Collaborator | Level 9
11 months ago

Dropbox no longer syncs automatically on my Windows 7 computers

Sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong board.   This problem just started today. I have had a free dropbox account for a number of years. I'm very happy with dropbox. However, starting yesterday ...
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    stephenroberts999
    11 months ago

    Hannah

     

    Problem resolved?  Let me restate the problem: 

     

    After replying to Hannah's question about the information shown when hovering over the dropbox icon, I brought up a file from my local dropbox files, stored locally on my Windows 7 computer. I made an edit on that local file, then hit the Save button, and exited the file. Then I logged into my dropbox account online, went to the file which I had edited locally, and saw that the file had been appropriately updated.

     

    So, it looks like dropbox has been actually syncing Ok.

     

    Apparently, for some (Windows) reason, the icon in the taskbar was not bringing up the list of my local dropbox files. I then created a new desktop icon for dropbox, and that worked fine. I then deleted the non-working taskbar icon.

     

    So I think now all is good (fingers crossed).  Many thanks to Hannah and to all the Dropbox community for pitching in and helping me with my perceived (non)problem. I see now I was just misunderstanding the problem, which was actually a Windows problem

     

    Best wishes to all!! 

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