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mjbright
New member | Level 2
4 months ago

MacOS Sonoma: Can't see the Dropbox menu bar to open the GUI

  I have no Dropbox menu icon (running macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 on an Apple M1 Pro). Dropbox is syncing.   So following the advice here https://help.dropbox.com/installs/system-tray-menu-bar (No...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    4 months ago

    Hi @mjbright, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

     

    Do you have a lot of icons on your menu bar, which could be hiding the Dropbox icon? 

     

    Could you try quitting other apps to see if the Dropbox icon appears there?

     

    Keep me updated with any progress!

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Jay
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Hi @mjbright, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

 

Do you have a lot of icons on your menu bar, which could be hiding the Dropbox icon? 

 

Could you try quitting other apps to see if the Dropbox icon appears there?

 

Keep me updated with any progress!

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mjbright
New member | Level 2
4 months ago

 

Thanks, indeed that fixed the issue.

 

I must add - it would be really nice if Dropbox provided some other way of opening the GUI on macOS.

 

... and of course it would be so nice if macOS had a (much) better way of managing the menu bar

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