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Dropbox Icon missing Windows 10
I fired my laptop up a couple of days ago and I noticed that the dropbox icon in the taskbar was missing. I checked task manager and dropbox is running theres just no icon and if I kill the task and...
Hi, I had this same (infuriating!) problem and fixed it thusly:
Right click on the systray area
select Properties
then select Notification area > customize
At the top there is a link to "Select which icons appear on the taskbar"
Go in there and toggle whatever setting you see for your dropbox icon.
Exit out -- should be fixed.
In my case the dropbox icon was set to "on" and I toggled it off. After exiting the dialog, I had my dropbox icon back in the "show hidden icons" area. I repeated the above and toggled the dropbox icon back to "on" and now it is back in my systray where it belongs.
I hope this helps someone.
Lori
Solution: as of Sep 15 2018, right click on taskbar in windows, select "Taskbar settings," and scroll down to section "Notification Area," and select "Select which Icons Appear on the Taskbar." here you should see DROPBOX and can turn it on!
Solution: as of Sep 15 2018, right click on taskbar in windows, select "Taskbar settings," and scroll down to section "Notification Area," and select "Select which Icons Appear on the Taskbar." here you should see DROPBOX and can turn it on!
- Jane
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox was NOT one of the options in the Notifications areas.
My Dropbox account is active and I can log into it on my browser.
Jane wrote:Sadly it isn't working for me. I have a Win 10 laptop, not one with upgraded software. Until a week ago the icon was there but now it's gone. So I cannot access settings at all and I want to have copies of a folder I have been invited to, accessible locally. At present I am having to go to dropbox.com to view the folder contents as it wasn't on my sync list, and of course now I cannot get to dropbox settings at all since that appears not to be accessible in dropbox.com, and isn't in my dropbox folder, it was only accessible on the icon.
So this is something Dropbox as a company really needs to address. Solutions that do seem t work for some people don't work for everybody, and settings are only accessible where the evasive icon is available
lost dropbox icon from the taskbar. Set Icon to ON. Still not on the screen.
- Jane
SpoilerTo resolve this, first try launching the app again. If this doesn’t work, you can and sign in to your Dropbox account when prompted. You can easily relaunch our app from your Applications folder, where you can find and run the Dropbox app.From there, I’m interested in seeing whether Dropbox appears on your Task Manager; do you see any Dropbox-related processes there running in the background?
I did this several times and it still is not appearing. Any ideas?
- Jane
Hey kaysilyn, just in order to make sure I’m following-up with you correctly, can you let me know whether you’ve followed the steps Hoovey posted in the previous page?
Also, are you facing an issue loading the Dropbox icon on your system tray? Can you confirm that you're working on a pc?
If it's not too much trouble for you, could you try restarting your computer once to reload the Dropbox visual elements & see if the issue persists?
Hi Jane. Thanks for the quick and thorough response. I am working on a PC, and I did do what Hoovey described several times, but it did not change anything. I also restarted my computer to no avail. However, I ended up re-installing dropbox and it now appears in the tray. I'm not sure what happened, but I'm doing fine now. Thanks again for your response.
I tried taskbar settings>choose which icons appear in the taskbar, but Droptox wasn't listed
Hoovey wrote:Solution: as of Sep 15 2018, right click on taskbar in windows, select "Taskbar settings," and scroll down to section "Notification Area," and select "Select which Icons Appear on the Taskbar." here you should see DROPBOX and can turn it on!
- Dropbox does not appear on my list
