You may need to log in to your Dropbox account if you aren’t already logged in. Note: If you don’t see the right side panel, click the left-facing arrow at the bottom right to open it.
When you hover over the plus sign, you’ll see “Get Add-ons.”
Install and enable the Dropbox for Gmail Add-on Add the file to your Dropbox account on or the Dropbox desktop app on your computer.Find the file in the “Downloads” folder on your computer.
Follow the instructions in Gmail Help to download a Gmail attachment to your computer.If you downloaded the Dropbox desktop app, you can find the file in the Dropbox folder on your computer, in File Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac).If you downloaded it from, you can find the file in the “Downloads” folder on your computer, in File Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac).Follow the instructions in Gmail Help to attach a file to a Gmail message.Sign in to and download the file you’d like to attach to your computer or download the Dropbox desktop app.
To attach a Dropbox file to a Gmail message: Attach Dropbox files to your Gmail messages
Not using Dropbox yet? See how Dropbox makes it easy to send large files. Save attachments from Gmail directly to your Dropbox accountĪdmins can enable the Dropbox for Gmail Add-on for their entire team from within the Google Admin console.Share your Dropbox files directly through your Gmail account.With the Dropbox for Gmail Add-on, you can: If this bar does not come for you, download and Install the flash player from the link below.The Dropbox for Gmail add-on is available on any browser or platform, including mobile apps. If you already have Flash Player in your web-browser and it is enabled, you will see this bar automatically. After the progress bar indicated that the upload is complete, simply press the Send button, and you will not see any Still working or Sending Messages because the file upload is already complete. Wait until the files are getting uploaded, this may take some time depending on your Internet connection upload speed and the file size. We recommend to install Flash Player for your Web Browser and then monitor the progress of your file upload using this flash progress bar as seen below: There is a flash based progress bar for the file upload which is visible in the browsers which have Flash Player Installed and enabled. As soon as you attach a file to Gmail and before pressing the send button, the file upload starts to the Gmail server. The fix for this is nothing else then a default feature of the Gmail. In this article we will tell you a trick with which you can avoid this confusion. During this time, when you see the message of Still Working or Sending, the files are actually getting uploaded from your computer to the Gmail server which takes time. The status you see like the one above may stay there for a few minutes. It may seem to you that it is some problem with the Gmail, but in real, this is a problem with either slow internet connectivity or poor upload speeds in certain cases. On the top of the Gmail Windows in my web browser, it will display message like “Sending” or “Still working” as seen below: Sometimes I observe that it takes a long time to send emails with attachments. I use Gmail a lot and send email attachment via mails at times.