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wyred
Helpful | Level 6
8 years ago

Disable URL to screenshot when taking a screenshot

When I take a screenshot, a public URL to it is automatically copied.   This has been annoying in a few situations because I had some code copied that I wanted to paste, but overwritten by the scre...
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wyred
Helpful | Level 6
8 years ago

Yes, that software is the dropbox app, which is why I'm here.

 

I kind of want the screenshot integrations but not the automatically-copy-url-to-clipboard thing.

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Rich
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8 years ago

If there isn't an option in Dropbox Preferences to disable the link creation, then you likely can't. On Windows, it's two separate capture methods; Print Screen for a screenshot, CTRL+Print Screen for a screenshot and a link. That option doesn't seem to be available on a Mac according to the help article on the feature.

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