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JOfE
Experienced | Level 11
6 years ago
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Dropbox macOS 11 Big Sur Problem: Finder Integration and Smart Sync

Dropbox version v110.3425 in macOS 11 is not showing integration in the finder menu. It is also not showing smart sync notifications in finder windows. Anyone else have this problem?
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  • Megan's avatar
    Megan
    5 years ago
    Thanks for the added info MartinL1!

    Could you please try the following steps:

    -Click on the Dropbox icon
    -Open your Activity Monitor from your Mac Utilities folder
    -Search for "Dropbox" in the search bar, and click the "x" on the top left, to force quit everything related to Dropbox
    -Re-start Dropbox from the applications folder by double clicking on the Dropbox application
    -Click on the Apple icon in the top left of your screen
    -Click on "force quit"
    -Relaunch the finder

    Thanks! 
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robjewitt
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

Urgh, I'm not looking forwards to having to do that

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bsyehuda
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

It happens that the Dropbox Finder Extension appears multiple times (check the activity monitor). This makes sync and smart sync operations non visible but synchronizations with the Dropbox site are working

A workaround is to force quit all these extensions using the activity monitor. After that Force quite the Finder process. It will automatically reappears and the Dropbox Finder extension appears too (made it is hooked to the Finder process).

It is unfortunate that I have to do this frequently, sometimes daily. 

Can't you write a better software this will prevent this duplications?  After all we are using Mac OS X to not mess with such things

 

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