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Decryption fails running iOS 14.2
Just updated iPhone and iPad to iOS 14.2. Now, trying to open an encrypted file, it tell me "Decryption Failed. Null" If I open with Excel, it works fine. Anyone else having this issue?
I also have success opening an encrypted file within Dropbox after updated 14.4 IOS update. Thanks for everyone's help and input.
Install Excel on your iPhone and you can open password protected/encrypted files with no problem.
I loaded Excel onto my iPad Air and it still comes up with the Decryption Fail error message. This has to be a Dropbox issue as too many people are experiencing the same proble.
- Please read all the posts. This is NOT a drop box issue. You should be able to open the document with excel or office for iOS. It is occurring with many apps including Microsoft one drive. Apple has changed they way the handle password protected office docs. I beg you to take the time to read the full thread.
I have iPad and iPhone. You cannot open within Dropbox but need to send it to the Excel app from Dropbox with the boxed arrow icon. Once in the Excel app you open with your encryption password.
Everyone is talking about Excel but I don't have ANY saved Excel files in Dropbox, only WORD files.
The problem only appears on my phone iPhone 11, NOT my computer. Dropbox.
I have not found a useful thread about this issue yet and do not understand some of the remarks people are saying, they are obviously more computer techno savvy than me.
Some people talk about resaving WORD files but how do I do that on my phone if I can't open the file? Do I go into my computer Dropbox and resave all the WORD files in Dropbox to something else. Most are saved as .docx, what I should I try and resave them as?
Do I do this on my computer Dropbox?
Like I say, most of the remarks are not helpful for me.
- Select the Word file you want to open. A screen will appear with a field for that document’s password. Leave the password field blank and select, at the bottom of that screen, the icon that is a small square with a line from its center to its upper right corner. A new screen will appear with a password field. Enter your password in that field and your Word document will open.
hi,
can you show which square you mean?
