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Can't open preference on Dropbox windows app
I am not able to open the actual Dropbox app on my Windows 10 machine. As I gather, the only way to do it is by clicking on the system tray icon. The problem is that the system tray icon doesn't prom...
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
meerkat wrote:
The problem is that the system tray icon doesn't prompt with any menu of any sort on being clicked.
Try a CTRL-left click to open the legacy menu. If that works, you might consider exiting the app and restarting it.
This drove me nuts. Why is nothing simple on any Windows machine, everything is so **bleep** awkward and cumbersome. I spent hours trying to find Dropbox Preferences on my Win 10 machine. Of all the computers in my business it's only the windows machine that give me grief. I despise them, and their designers. Anyway, trying to figure out Selective Synch eventually lead me here. The info here didn't help but I eventually figured it out. So I thought I'd share my solution, and save you from wasting several hours of your life on what should be a very simple setting, but isn't because windows engineers are thick as bricks when it comes to creating anything remotely intuitive....😡
You will not find the Preferences where you think it should be...on the Dropbox folder on the file tree, Don't even bother trying to open the app through the Programs list.....no, the only way to get to the actual Dropbox desktop app is thought the teeny tiny up arrow next to the wifi symbol on the bottom right of the screen, then, buried 7 steps later, you'll find the actual Selective Sych option, proven in the attached series of photos.
......Well I was going to upload photos, but they turned out to be the wrong format and then after converting too big, so I gave up, considering I've spent way to much time on this. No wonder everyone here tries to explain everything without images. Images that would replace a thousand words....SO, for selective Synch....Just look for the stupid tiny up arrow next to your Wifi/Time on the lower right of the screen, click that and then click on the Dropbox logo, then your Account (Your Initials or picture), then Preferences, then Synch.
You're welcome...
