Share to Dropbox Windows 8.1

When I installed Dropbox on my 8.1 machine, when I go to Share on the Charms menu, Dropbox is an
option and when I click on it..nothing happens. It just shows the blue dropbox logo.

When I tap on Dropbox from my Start Menu, it automatically logs me into my account so I don't
know why Dropbox seems to be lost from the Share.

Does anyone know how to get this to work on the Charms bar?

Hi there
The SEARCH Charms function is a typically BOVINE piece of software that obviously wasn't tested by the developers with NORMAL USERS before being rolled out.

The only asinine way I can get this thing to even HALF work is to use the Metro version of IE to bring up a web page and then go into the Charms menu where some of the context *might* appear in the charms share.

Reading further - it seems functionality of this will be limited to Store apps only -- even more imbecellic -- I HATE the whole "Store concept" anyway -- leave that method to our well known "Fruit Company".

The way I would have designed it would be for you to right mouse click and then pin the link / item you want to share -- but Oh No - some incredibly useless system was devised -- some of the designers here SHOULD HAVE BEEBN SHOT !!!! => Don't people ever do a simple POC (Proof of Concept) of their applications these days before writing A SINGLE LINE OF CODE or is that too old fashioned now.

Cheers
jimbo

orlandotek said:

When I installed Dropbox on my 8.1 machine, when I go to Share on the Charms menu, Dropbox is an
option and when I click on it..nothing happens. It just shows the blue dropbox logo.

When I tap on Dropbox from my Start Menu, it automatically logs me into my account so I don't
know why Dropbox seems to be lost from the Share.

Does anyone know how to get this to work on the Charms bar?

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Do you have the App installed or is this the desktop version? Was this working before upgrading to Windows 8.1?
Dropbox app for Windows in the Windows Store

From what I have read the functionality of Dropbox in Windows 8 leaves much to be desired, although disabling UAC may helpful for resolving problems with dropbox.
How to Use Dropbox in Windows 8

It only showed up on the charms bar only after I had upgraded to 8.1. I already had Dropbox installed when I was on 8.0. I already tried to uninstall and re-install from the Windows store. No help.

Don't know if someone can help but I also have a dropbox issue. I have installed Dropbox on my Sony laptop running windows 8.1 and Office 2013 (new to both). From Start screen I can access the dropbox and open my files fine. The issue is when I try to save it I am told it was opened "read only". and have to rename or save someplace else. Don't have the problem on my old windows xp laptop running office 2007. How do I get it to save back to dropbox?? Thanks