Dropbox drops support for Google Docs files and converts them to Microsoft Office

Dropbox was one of the first cloud storage services to catch on with users, though alternatives Skydrive (now Onedrive) from Microsoft and Google Drive soon followed.

For 5 years, Dropbox had an agreement that allowed office documents to be opened directly from Google Docs, allowing files of this type to be stored in the Dropbox account and opened directly. However, that agreement has come to an end and You can no longer open or store Google Docs files in Dropbox.

Users who have Google Docs files in their Dropbox accounts will not lose them, but due to the agreement the company has reached with Microsoft, will be automatically converted to Microsoft Office format and they can be opened from Microsoft 365 online or locally.

In case you want to keep the format of Google Docs, users will have 30 days to download them locally before they are permanently migrated to the new format. Otherwise, they will become shortcuts in addition to being migrated to the Microsoft Office format (docx for example for text files)

At the moment it is not clear if the decision to abandon support for Google Docs was made by Google or by Dropbox itself, but the agreement had been active since 2018.

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