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Dropbox Finder Extension doesn't work and I have no Dropbox context menu items on new installation
I just installed to Mac OS Tahoe. I no longer have the "Make Available Offline" Feature available to me when I right click on a folder. All of the Dropbox list items are now gone.
There's no way to...
I’ve been fighting the “no sync icons in Finder” issue on macOS Tahoe. In my case, Dropbox was still using the old ~/Dropbox location instead of the newer ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox.
What finally fixed it was:
- Completely removing the old install
- Quit Dropbox, open Terminal and stop Dropbox/Finder.
- Delete the old ~/Dropbox folder.
- Remove all Dropbox support folders, caches and helper tools under ~/Library and /Library.
- If a ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox folder already existed, delete that too.
- Restart the Mac.
- Reinstalling Dropbox with default settings
- Install the latest version from dropbox.com.
- On Advanced settings, leave the Dropbox folder location as “Default location”, keep “Save files as online only” if you want, and make sure “Dropbox on File Provider” stays enabled (don’t opt out).
- Checking the new path
- From the menu bar icon, choose “Open Dropbox folder”.
- Now it opens in ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox.
- After that, sync went back to normal and, after a bit, the Finder icons started showing again.
If your icons are missing and Dropbox is still in ~/Dropbox, doing this full clean‑out and reinstall, then letting it use the default File Provider location, is what finally solved it for me.
