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mauricev
Collaborator | Level 9
3 years ago

No context menu

I have a relatively freshly installed Monterey system and noticed that Dropbox isn’t nor has it ever displayed its context menu items in the Finder when I right-click on some item in my Dropbox folder. 

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    mauricev
    3 years ago

    The simple fix here was to move the Dropbox folder to where the symlink points to, that is, the full path.

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      mauricev
      Collaborator | Level 9
      3 years ago

      I can confirm that Dropbox is working inside a fresh account, so something in my Library folder is interfering with it. I see these errors in the Dropbox debug log

      [1222/141720.290081:ERROR:cache_util.cc(140)] Unable to move cache folder GPUCache to old_GPUCache_000
      [1222/141720.290372:ERROR:disk_cache.cc(184)] Unable to create cache
      [1222/141720.290471:ERROR:shader_disk_cache.cc(622)] Shader Cache Creation failed: -2

       

       

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        mauricev
        Collaborator | Level 9
        3 years ago

        It turns out this is a bug. My profile is symlinked to another volume on the same disk. In that situation, the context menu won’t show up. If I test with the profile on the boot volume, it shows up just fine.

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