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Robbie1
Helpful | Level 6
12 months ago

I can no longer open Dropbox from the icon pinned to the taskbar, nor from the .exe in the folder

Starting today, I tried to open Dropbox that is pinned to the taskbar. It wouldn't open. I opened the program folder and double-clicked on the .exe file. It also would not open Dropbox.  I uninstalle...
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    Robbie1
    12 months ago

     

     

     

     

    Hi Jay, I think I fixed it. The attached photo shows the target path of the icon pinned to taskbar that will not open. Start menu icon had no properties. I then went to the desktop icon that will open the program and replaced the taskbar icon target with the path C:\Users\robch\Dropbox

    which will now open the program from the taskbar. The executable icon in the program folder remains as per the attached photo. Should I change the target or just leave it as is? At least I can open and use the program now from the taskbar icon.

     

     

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ArcanumSolum
Explorer | Level 3
9 months ago

If Dropbox staff are still here, I currently have the same problem, I tried reinstalling to no avail as well as copying and pasting the directory in the properties of the taskbar and start menu shortcuts to no avail.

 

When changing the directory it shows the following message:


In the properties window, the startup says the following

Target: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Dropbox\Client\Dropbox.exe" /home

Start in: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Dropbox\Client"

 

 

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