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Turned off Dropbox repository in Moodle 2.4

I use Dropbox almost every day and find it to be a very useful tool for accessing files from multiple computers. I was excited to read about the Dropbox integration with Moodle, but apparently I didn't read the details very closely. I'm not sure that there ever was a reason to use the Dropbox repository feature on our site, given the limitations that it has. There are a number of steps involved in setting up the Dropbox repository, but once you've done that, you can access Dropbox from within Moodle to add files to a class. Problem number 1 is that you can only access 1 Dropbox account per site. In my case, I overlooked that limitation since it was my own Dropbox account that I was accessing. Not very useful for anyone else. The second limitation is that you can only copy files from Dropbox and you can only do it one file at a time. The dialog box that shows up when you access Dropbox give you the choice of copying the file or linking to it. Of course,  linking to it i