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628878848
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1 month ago

Why does the Dropbox desktop app hijack my screenshots?

How to stop dropbox from taking my screenshots. The solutions privided do not work. There is no way to get the app to load on a mac. Opening the dropbox icon, which is supposed to open the app just o...
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1 month ago
DROPBOXSUX wrote:

The App never opens so the preferences section is never available to fix this screenshot hijacking issue

You have set the app to not open via the preferences. 

Try using CTRL or CMD when clicking on the Dropbox icon instead to open the display window. 

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