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anonymous's avatar
anonymous
10 years ago

Dropbox Desktop App crashing on Windows 8

I have several users who are noticing that their Dropbox App completely crashes on Windows 8 and they are off line. We have tried to restart the app and nothing happens. Only solution is to reinsta...
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Mark H.78's avatar
Mark H.78
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

I have a Windows 8.1 pro VM that also experiences this behavior. The icon appears, seems to work for a while then is gone.

Kind of a bad deal for me as I use DropBox to keep this Win 8.1 VM in sync for remote development purposes. Hope there is a fix soon.

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