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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 folde...
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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
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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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mauricev
Collaborator | Level 9
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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