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Jessica D.20's avatar
Jessica D.20
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

How do I disable or remove capture?

How do I disable or remove capture? The screenshot URLs do not work for some reason. I just want to go back to the old dropbox screenshot URLs. I've uninstalled dropbox capture and unchecked/rechecked the dropbox settings in the regular dropbox app, but my screenshot URLs still use the capture domain. Those do not work, they just return a 404, every time. Additionally, they do not unfurl in slack, and other users then have to download capture to view. This is so frustrating, how do I remove it?

  • YoucefDropbox's avatar
    YoucefDropbox
    3 years ago

    Hi everyone,

     

    I just wanted to follow up on my message above.

     

    • The 404 error should never happen again. We've deployed the fix. Thank you so much for your help in finding the root cause of this issue
    • dl=1 and raw=1 now work exactly as you requested

    Please let us know if there is anything else you'd like us to add to the Capture links to make them even better.

     

    Thank you so much!

  • Subgiant's avatar
    Subgiant
    Helpful | Level 5

     

    Before when I took a screenshot from my Mac, it would upload the file to dropbox and give me a public link, normally with dl=0 at the end. Now it gives me a capture link and when I view this, it takes me to the dropbox website. However a big big feature was to take a screenshot and embed them into an email/support ticket so they could view it, inline in their emails, without needed to click to an external site. This no longer works as the URL is now pointing to capture. How do I turn this off? I don't mind it for videos, but single static screenshots need to be an image I can embed. This has also broken the slack functionality, and people only see a capture link now and not the image.

     

     

    • Megan's avatar
      Megan
      Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

      Hi Subgiant, how are you doing? 

      Have you tried uninstalling the Capture app on your end? 

      Also, if you access the app's preferences and then go under the Backups tab, do you have any relevant options there?

      Let me know more.

      • Subgiant's avatar
        Subgiant
        Helpful | Level 5

        Hi

         

        Thanks for the super fast reply!

         

        Dropbox is still uploading screenshots from my desktop to the dropbox folder without a problem, however the link that is created is as follows: https://capture.dropbox.com/vxhVgsaQjSq3RoOV?src=ss

         

        It's not the old link style that worked in Slack and other programs, I've uninstalled Capture (but this was a useful program) I just want the image on it's own and not the dropbox website. This used to be the case until the last couple of days.

         

         

  • Megan's avatar
    Megan
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
    Hey Jessica D.20, let's see what we can find on this together! 

    Does the 404 error show up on all of the links or just some of them? 

    Since you uninstalled Dropbox Capture, can you try re-creating a shared link from scratch and let me know how this goes? 
    Please keep me updated!

    Keep me posted!
    • Jessica D.20's avatar
      Jessica D.20
      Helpful | Level 6

      Hi Megan,

       

      It happens on ALL of my screenshots. I either get a 404, or sometimes I get a notification that it is uploading but it never does (days later, still nothing there). This is not just for me but also for those who I'm trying to share the screenshot URL with.

       

      Here is a new screenshot:

      But either way, I just want to get back to the way it was, I do NOT want to use capture at all, how do I remove it? How do I remove capture all together so that my screenshot URLs are like the second example above (dropbox.com vs capture.dropbox.com)?

      • Jessica D.20's avatar
        Jessica D.20
        Helpful | Level 6

        Also Megan, I just want to be very clear, I do not have any desire to use Capture, I want it gone, removed (I've uninstalled it etc, so I shouldn't be having this issue at all). Capture has been nothing but problematic.

         

        It appears that other responses on here to those with the same issue I'm having, are bypassing that and offering getting Capture to work. So I want to specify and make sure it's really clear - thats not my question and not what I'm after at all, I don't have any interest in getting capture to work at this point. I'm asking How do I disable or remove capture?

         

        I simply just want my URLs back to plain ole dropbox.com, NOT capture.dropbox.com. How do I achieve this?

         

        But what I don't want to do is waste anymore time on capture, if there isn't a way to just revert back like I'm asking, then Dropbox is moot for me as this is the main reason I use it. And if thats the case, I'll just remove Dropbox and go back to using Google Drive (at least those URLs unfurl in slack).

  • patricepcs's avatar
    patricepcs
    New member | Level 2

    Every time I log on to my PC, Dropbox Capture launches. I cannot see any kind of setting to prevent this. As a result, every time I need to go to the dropdown and Quit. It's a nuisance. While I do want to continue using Dropbox, I do not want to use Capture. How can I disable or uninstall it?

    I'll appreciate help on this.

    • Hannah's avatar
      Hannah
      Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

      Hey patricepcs, I moved your post to this relevant thread, so if you'd like to stop Dropbox Capture from backing up your screenshots and screen recordings, you can follow the steps Nancy posted here.

       

      Otherwise, you should be able to uninstall it, just like any other program on your computer, from your control panel.

  • Frank P E.'s avatar
    Frank P E.
    Helpful | Level 7

    Since "capture" is a window's app how  is it un-installed? 

    • Nancy's avatar
      Nancy
      Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

      Hi Frank P E.! Hope you’re doing well. 

       

      If you see Dropbox Capture among the list of programs on your Windows computer, you can uninstall it, like you would with the rest of your programs there. 

       

      Let me know if you face any issues, though.

      • Frank P E.'s avatar
        Frank P E.
        Helpful | Level 7

        umm --- its not listed with the other programs like dropbox itself 

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