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JOfE
5 years agoExperienced | Level 11
Dropbox macOS 11 Big Sur Problem: Finder Integration and Smart Sync
Dropbox version v110.3425 in macOS 11 is not showing integration in the finder menu. It is also not showing smart sync notifications in finder windows. Anyone else have this problem?
- 4 years agoThanks for the added info MartinL1!
Could you please try the following steps:
-Click on the Dropbox icon
-Open your Activity Monitor from your Mac Utilities folder
-Search for "Dropbox" in the search bar, and click the "x" on the top left, to force quit everything related to Dropbox
-Re-start Dropbox from the applications folder by double clicking on the Dropbox application
-Click on the Apple icon in the top left of your screen
-Click on "force quit"
-Relaunch the finder
Thanks!
devilsinkpot
Helpful | Level 5
It's back now, but I needed to remove all components manually and install from scratch. A simple re-install wasn't suffice.
Sparqx
5 years agoHelpful | Level 5
@devilsinkpot, can you pass on what you did to remove all the components? I dragged Dropbox from the Applications folder to the trash and reinstalled with a download but that didn't work. Perhaps also deleting the folder ~/Library/Application Support/Dropbox?
- devilsinkpot4 years agoHelpful | Level 5
I cleaned out the usual folders under /Library and ~/Library from any Dropxbox-related files (Application Support, Application Scripts, Caches, Containers, GroupContainers, Dropbox, …).
The issue keeps coming back. I can't pin it down to some special event, but I reinstalled three times now and each time Finder integration vanished after less than a day of using the machine. On two machines. One a factory installed, new Macbook with nothing but Big Sur and Creative Cloud on it.
- USP4 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Same issue here. After installing dropbox again, the second time it worked.
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