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ErnieDee
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2 years ago

Right-click no longer works

Yesterday, Dropbox worked fine: when I right clicked on an item in the Dropbox folder on my Mac desktop, an array of options popped up, including one for creating a Share link. Today, that right clic...
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Rich
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2 years ago
ErnieDee wrote:

Yesterday, Dropbox worked fine: when I right clicked on an item in the Dropbox folder on my Mac desktop, an array of options popped up, including one for creating a Share link. Today, that right click doesn't work and no options pop up.

Are you not getting a right-click menu at all, or are you getting a right-click menu that just doesn't have the Dropbox options available?

 

If it's the latter, is the Dropbox application running and visible in your menu bar?

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    ErnieDee
    Helpful | Level 5
    2 years ago

    Hi, Dropbox is visible in my menu bar. I quit and relaunched, just in case.

     

    I get no right-click menu at all when I right click something in my Dropbox folder. But now I notice that right click isn't working at all, in any way, so it's not a Dropbox-specif issue. I must have changed settings on my trackpad at some point.

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      Rich
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      2 years ago
      ErnieDee wrote:

      But now I notice that right click isn't working at all, in any way, so it's not a Dropbox-specif issue.

      That's where I was going with that. Try a Control-Left Click, just to make sure you can still get a context-menu.

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