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Remove Dropbox options from the context menu.
Hi, recently Dropbox has started cramming my Explorer context menu with all of these options I mostly don't plan to use:
Come on. Do you think it's ok to just dump all your stuff in ther...
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
pgr wrote:
How do I turn that off? I only use "Copy dropbox link", not the others.
Dropbox has always had options in the Context menus. There's no option within Dropbox to remove them.
Ok, there have always been items there, just not so many. What would you say is a reasonable limit for any given app to place items on a system menu shared by all apps? I believe this will have to be a very conservative option - one or two at most. Of course, if it is configurable by the user, you can go further and add more.
I have 3 apps placing entries there, and I could easily have 5 or 6 apps doing it. If each would place 9 (!) entries like Dropbox, think of how functional that menu would become...
Also, how common is it for users to actually use some of these things? The vast majority of Dropbox users will simply never click "Send for signature" (or even "View comments", since we're only sharing with ourselves, not teams or groups).
There needs to be some consideration and some humility here from Dropbox developers...
I agree - my context menu is suddenly flooded with dropbox items that I will never use.
- Walter
Dropbox Staff
Hey christianius - thanks for joining the discussion here.
Could you let us know your device's OS version and the version of the Dropbox desktop app installed there as well?
When did you first notice this by the way?
