Dropbox loses the ability to create and edit Google Docs, Sheets and Slides

Dropbox and Google Drive are ending their partnership that made it possible to create and edit Google’s Docs, Sheets and Slides file formats within Dropbox. Users need to 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 mentioned in the email users received over the weekend. Users have 30 days from the time of email to transfer their files to Google Drive through a link between the two services or can wait until they are automatically converted to the file types that Microsoft Office applications use, reports 9to5Google.

The functionality is present since 2018. In addition to the above-mentioned functionality, Hangouts and Gmail were also integrated into Dropbox. Dropbox justifies the decision by saying that this way it ‘streamlines the work with your files’.