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Duplicate Dropbox Options in Context (Right Click) Menu - Windows 11
Title pretty much sums it up. When I right click a file in dropbox or Winblows explorer tree, there are 2 sets of Dropbox options. With other installed apps and options I've enabled, right click menu is quite long, (full menu no shown below). How do I consolidate these 2 Dropbox option trees into 1? Thanx
Feedback on Context Menu Issues - Current design
Folks: I've been using Dropbox since it was invite-only way back in the day. I love many things about this app. I went pro for a while when my needs required it, and have been free for a bit. Was considering going pro again as my needs are growing, but the biggest thing stopping me from wanting to give you money is your anti-user design. Some context: I'm a power user. I keep a manicured classic start menu so I can keyboard shortcut to anything on my computer. I curate my context menus to work for me and not have clutter. The problem: Every year, you make it harder to customize our user interface in Windows Explorer and our Start Menu. Once upon a time, I could just Move, Rename, or Remove start menu entries I didn't want after installation. You changed it so that the update process reinstalls any I've changed. I can't even hide them, because you overwrite that too. Fine, I made a script that I run after every update now to clean up that garbage. But you shouldn't be forcing this. If you really feel like you have to to help your completely unexpert users, then let us toggle it with a setting or disable it with a registry entry. But even more insane is the context menu. Every good app I use lets me choose whether to add it to the context menu. Most of them only have one entry anyways, or (like WinRar) put them in a submenu item. What you do is force *six* context menu entries, with no way to disable them, and not under a submenu in the menu. Now, back in the day, I dealt wih it the same way. There were various registry edits we could use to clean this up, and I built a script to do it after install. You put them back after every update? I ran the script after every install. But a little while back, you broke that so that even rooting out your registry entries doesn't stop it. Fine, I manually clean them out with ShellExView. And now that doesn't even work. Despite disabling the context menu items there, they're persisting. I can no longer reclaim my context menu for my own. None of the known workarounds work. And you refuse to offer any option to turn that **bleep** off. Now let me explain exactly how stupid and annoying that is. You're taking up 1/3 of my context menu. You hijack the "D" keyboard shortcut in the context menu so I can no longer right click and hit my D key to delete an item. Because now that jumps to "View on Dropbox.com" which I literally *NEVER* want to do. I can't right click an item and "create a shortcut" by using the S key because you've hijacked that to "Share with dropbox" dialogue. The minor issue with this is that you've implemented your context menu badly by overriding default Windows behaviors because you didn't specify currently-unused keys and that you didn't put them in a submenu item. The MAJOR issue with this is that your anti-user behavior of refusing to allow us to customize these items like every good app does AND your intentional breaking of every workaround that users come up with to circumvent your dark pattern design. This goes from "bad choices" to "malevolent choices". Stop trying to take over my explorer window. Let me customize what goes in my own context menu. And when we find workarounds to fix your shoddy design, don't make it worse by intentionally breaking the fixes.
Dropbox not displaying in Chrome
Hi everyone, I'm having a strangely annoying thing go on today with Dropbox on Chrome. I didn't have it yesterday. First I can't display files sent to me via a Dropbox link on Chrome. The link displays as a Jpeg of the first slide and that's it (no dropbox menu or anything). I could display the file sent opening an incognito window, or on another browser (Safari). The link was Keynote slide document in this case - but no Dropbox file links seem to work on Chrome at the moment, though they do on Safari. Then I tried accessing my Dropbox account on Chrome and only got a blank screen just white screen with a black cookie warning bar on the top. Clicking learn more led me to Dropbox support website which worked, but clicking OK did nothing (I didn't take a screenshot). Meanwhile Dropbox on the desktop seems fine as well, as far as I can work out my account is syncing all my folders and files fine. Given it seemed to be something going on with Chrome, I emptied my cache, deleted cookies, restarted multiple times, updated Mac OS just in case, restarted my laptop again. The main page of Dropbox showed up where I could log in to my account on Chrome so I thought it was sorted, but now it only shows me this screen. It looks like it's loading but just stops there. It seems some setting on Chrome (?) but I can't figure out what, and I haven't actually changed anything between yesterday and today... I'm a little stumped, happy to have ideas of things I could or should be doing, thank you!Dropbox Mac Beta: Green Circles are gone - everything has the cloud symbol
I am assuming work is being done in the background, but as of a few days ago, I no longer have green circles for downloaded (available offline) files. Everything has a cloud symbol (that symbol doesn't even exist in the online documentation) but seems to be available offline. I am also getting lots of sync errors - but my files appear to be still on my computer (where I need them). And yesterday the DROPBOX icon disappeared from my sidebar (Locations). Only to show up again hours later. Strange. What is going on? These sync irregularities seem to be quite substantial. Syncing files is what Dropbox is all about. I am a little surprised this beta version was even released to the public. When I joined the beta, the email I got from dropbox made it sound like the final release was imminent.
