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Notification "Show in Finder" is gone
Hello – could you please get back the "Show in Finder" option for notifications? I am not interested having another layer of software "Dropbox app" and I want to edit files directly on my laptop to s...
- Thanks for the screenshot! Could you please try the following steps?
1️⃣ Click the Dropbox icon in your menu bar.
2️⃣ Click your photo or initials.
3️⃣ Click 'Preferences…'
4️⃣ Click the dropdown next to Open folders in: and choose 'Dropbox desktop app'.
5️⃣ Quit the Dropbox app.
6️⃣ Reboot your device.
7️⃣ Relaunch the app, and change the settings to 'Open folders in: Finder'
This helped in my case !
Same issue here. It really annoying to have something that works great change. It was a feature I really liked and used a lot. What is the fix, if any?
Thanks for the screenshot! Could you please try the following steps?
1️⃣ Click the Dropbox icon in your menu bar.
2️⃣ Click your photo or initials.
3️⃣ Click 'Preferences…'
4️⃣ Click the dropdown next to Open folders in: and choose 'Dropbox desktop app'.
5️⃣ Quit the Dropbox app.
6️⃣ Reboot your device.
7️⃣ Relaunch the app, and change the settings to 'Open folders in: Finder'
This helped in my case !
1️⃣ Click the Dropbox icon in your menu bar.
2️⃣ Click your photo or initials.
3️⃣ Click 'Preferences…'
4️⃣ Click the dropdown next to Open folders in: and choose 'Dropbox desktop app'.
5️⃣ Quit the Dropbox app.
6️⃣ Reboot your device.
7️⃣ Relaunch the app, and change the settings to 'Open folders in: Finder'
This helped in my case !
Thank you! This has been an issue for me for months. Your instructions (@Messagedj2) worked perfectly. Yay! :)
This is an old post but still gonna try. I don't have an option for step 4 in your instructions (Open folders in). What do I do?
- Nancy
Dropbox Staff
Hey spsachos, I hope you’re doing well.
Can you let me know a few more details on what you see exactly (or maybe upload a screenshot), and what you’d like to achieve?
The Dropbox app interface that is mentioned in this thread has been deprecated for some time, so I’d like to be sure what it is you see on your end.
Cheers!
