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I'm using Notepad++ on several computers, and rather than saving locally on each one I want to save to my Dropbox. There is an option in Notepad++ to do this, but it remains disabled. According to this (How to activate disabled cloud settings save option in Notepad++?) question it is disabled because I don't have Dropbox, Onedrive or Googledrive installed. However I have both Onedrive and Dropbox installed and running and still the option is disabled in Notepad++. Notepad++ is running as administrator and I have restarted it several times.

When I installed Notepad++ some time ago there were some different install options, could one of these be the issue? Nothing I can find online mentions that a particular install option needed to be chosen and I'm unsure how I could now do this short of uninstalling and reinstalling Notepad++ on each computer. I don't really want to start doing this since I'm merely speculating on the cause.

Here's a screencap showing the issue, the disabled option and the running cloud services:

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I'm using Windows 7 and 8.1, although I have not tried this option on 8.1 yet.

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  • There is an exact duplicate of this question, the solution is that, there is a bug in the current version. Use the previous version and it will work.
    – Ramhound
    Apr 13, 2015 at 13:12
  • My apologies. I did search but the only question that came up was the one I linked to, not this one.
    – Ed the Ted
    Apr 13, 2015 at 13:17
  • The other obvious fix is to save the files to your dropbox sync folder and let dropbox handle the upload.
    – krowe
    Apr 13, 2015 at 13:17
  • @krowe, thanks I can do that. I think the extra advantage to using the option in npp is that for quick notes etc that you don't save they should still be saved to cloud.
    – Ed the Ted
    Apr 13, 2015 at 13:28
  • For anyone with the same issue I can confirm reverting to version 6.7.4 bring this option back, although it only recognises Dropbox, not Onedrive.
    – Ed the Ted
    Apr 13, 2015 at 13:29

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Current version (6.7.5) has a bug causing the above issue. Version 6.7.4 I have confirmed allows Dropbox sync, athough Onedrive still appears disabled (at least in my case).

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The Dropbox integration is over rated. It just saves the settings to its own folder. Just install NotePad++ from PortableApps and install it to a Dropbox folder. Everything will be synced going forward.

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  • Seems pretty cool to me. PortableApps version has some drawbacks (not as tight system integration)
    – Josef Sábl
    Jun 29, 2015 at 7:12

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