You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.

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Roadster1024
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Txt files now open in preview mode instead of the Dropbox Text Editor directly

My files are created as plain .txt files. In the past they would open directly with the Dropbox Text Editor as I had selected the Dropbox Text Editor as the default in the phone app. Now the files ...
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Suprdave74
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

I am another annoyed Dropbox user that HATES the default preview screeen!!  At the moment it's merly an annoyance, but one that will drive me crazy after a while. UN-DO THAT "UPGRADE" I'll go back to *shudder* OneDrive....

 

Make the preview an OPTION not the MANDATORY default for opening text files PLEASE!!

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