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Joe Music
2 years agoHelpful | Level 5
No syncing, no task bar icon
Hello, I'm not sure about the right board. And I have read hundreds of posts before, but did not find a solution. I have dropbox since years. It ran fine. In March I changed from Win10 to Win11. It s...
- 2 years ago
Hello Walter and all.
May be I found the problem or the solution. The start of dropbox was disabled in the system start. Whoever that did!..... Now I enabled the start, and so far it works, at least after one restart. I will see, if it keeps enabled, or if something disables it again. So far from me. Regards Joe.
Marcus_VG
Helpful | Level 5
Hello Walter,
I have the same problem. No synching & no task bar icon, also running on Windows 11.
Unlike Joe, DB is set to auto start on start-up on my PC already.
Are you really suggesting that we disable any antivirus, firewall & VPN software just to be able to use DB?!
Mark
2 years agoSuper User II
If Dropbox isnt showing at the top Marcus_VG then it even running - and so the firewall etc. isnt disabling as the software isnt open.
- Marcus_VG2 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Thanks. I assume you mean 'it isn't even running'...
I seem to have got it running now....
However, my concern still stands:
"Are you really suggesting that we disable any antivirus, firewall & VPN software just to be able to use DB?!"
Seems ridiculous
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