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currentj
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

Dropbox freezes and crashes my file explorer.

Hello, I am having trouble with dropbox working through my Windows file explorer.  For some reason, within the last week every time I try to navigate to one of my dropbox files the file explorer cr...
Desktop
Windows
ssjandres's avatar
ssjandres
Explorer | Level 3

I started having the same issue 3 days ago. I read this entire thread and uninstalled and did the advance reinstall deleted the registry folders and the dropbox folders from the 3 locations. Even if I quit the Dropbox app (bottom right corner and quit) the folder just loads forever within windows explorer. I can, in fact, open files from within programs. 
Any other suggestions to solve this issue?

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multipass
Explorer | Level 4
5 months ago

NOpe.. i still have it!!  can't use Dropbox in Explorer! so annoying

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