Dropbox and Google Drive are ending their collaboration that made it possible to create and edit Google’s Docs, Sheets and Slides file formats within Dropbox. Users must migrate those files to Drive or transfer them to MS Office formats.
Why the change is happening and which of the two parties, or both, is initiating it, is not specified in the email users receive received last weekend. Users have 30 days from email to transfer their files to Google Drive through a link between the two services or can wait for them to be automatically converted to the file types used by Microsoft Office applications, reports 9to5Google.
The functionality is present since 2018. In addition to the aforementioned functionality, there was also integration of Hangouts and Gmail in Dropbox. Dropbox justifies the decision by saying that it “streamlines working with your files.”
