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Birsay1
New member | Level 2
3 months ago

The Dropbox right-click options are gone from my Mac's Finder.

My files are all in the cloud. This restricts things I can do on my Mac; I can't preview or upload to the web, for example (which I want to do often). I thought one used to be able to right click i...
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Birsay1
New member | Level 2
10 days ago

Right, there are no Dropbox icons visible.

However, if I open a Word document from a folder in Dropbox, a Dropbox icon does appear in Word.

The status I'm describing has been on my computer for months, if not longer. I used to have Dropbox icons in the Finder, but now I don't. Not sure what happened.

Other than that, Dropbox is functioning and syncing.

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