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toysbyus
11 months agoHelpful | Level 6
Mac Sonoma 17.2: Using the free Dropbox app as before BUT the menu bar icon has disappeared
Strange: I have been a member using the "free" Dropbox on my MacBook Pro r(now running Sonoma 17.2) for years. All of a sudden, the menu bar icon of Dropbox has disappeared. I have reinstalled the ap...
- 11 months ago
Walter and Hannah:
You folks are geniuses! I just rebooted the MacBook Pro as asked and Dropbox icon now is visible on the menu bar where it usually was........I opened it and my files are all visible and the icon stays there now.....a very Merry Christmas and happy Holidays to you and Dropbox tech support!!!
Walter
Dropbox Staff
Hey toysbyus - I know this might sound trivial, but have you rebooted your computer and/or quit and relaunched the app since you first noticed this?
toysbyus
11 months agoHelpful | Level 6
Nothing trivial about your suggestion: I've rebooted several times and no change. I'll try it again from the MacBook Pro and report back BUT I suspect that the Dropbox appl. is not going to show up in the menu bar........
Thanks for sticking with me! Remember that the icon USED to be visible but only changed its behavior after one of the Sonoma updates......
- toysbyus11 months agoHelpful | Level 6
Hello Walter:
No updates at all, unfortunately. I have a Dropbox icon in my Dock that, when selected, shows Dropbox folder with some old files that I did BUT no way to "quit" the appl. Also, no dot under the Dock Dropbox icon indicating that it's even running. Dropbox appl. is shown to be in the Mac HD under "Applications" but no way to close it...or open it. How strange.....
Restarting the MacBook does NOT make the upper menubar DB icon become visible.
Screwy, eh?
- toysbyus11 months agoHelpful | Level 6
Walter, back when I first installed Dropbox, it automatically oriented it self on my Mac computers and, until this most recent anomaly, it was always "there"...........being a young 76 as far as computers go, I usually just "fall" into the correct fix. Not this time apparently, though!
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