You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Forum Discussion
How to stop DropBox from asking whether to back up a USB stick
Whenever I connect a USB stick to my computer Dropbox pops up and asks me whether I want to backup that stick to Dropbox and I have to click that darn dialog away AGAIN. I never have and never will b...
You can disable it on the Backup tab in Dropbox Preferences.
The solution - disable it on the Backup tab in Dropbox Preferences - doesn't work for me. I cannot access Preferences, not on my Win 10 PC, not on the Dropbox web page.
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
Taekmantle wrote:
I cannot access Preferences, not on my Win 10 PC, not on the Dropbox web page.
You access Preferences from the Dropbox application on your computer; not the Dropbox website. Why are you unable to access Preferences? What happens when you try?
Thanks for responding Rich.
If I open Dropbox on the computer I see a file that looks exactly like any other open file on my computer. I see the documents I have saved there and a hidden file called .dropbox.cache. Nothing else. There is no 'tab' for Preferences. I can right click on the Dropbox icon in the menu, but there is no Preferences to choose there. I can look in Properties - but again I see no Preferences.
I can't see anything in the ribbon at the top of the Dropbox file either.
- Rich
Taekmantle wrote:
If I open Dropbox on the computer I see a file that looks exactly like any other open file on my computer.
You're clicking the wrong icon. You need to single-click the icon in your system tray (Windows) or menu bar (Mac).
I'm sorry if I'm being obtuse, but it doesn't matter whether I right-click or left-click the icon, and it doesn't matter whether it's in my task bar, start field or picked from the list of 'all apps'. I still don't get a Preferences option. I have tried to get it to show up in my system tray, but it won't appear there. (I don't know why it should only be there that the Preferences option appears.) Do I perhaps need to remove Dropbox altogether and reinstall it?
