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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 had this exact problem — garcon kept showing as disabled, reinstalling didn't fix it, pluginkit -e use didn't stick even with sudo. The root cause turned out to be a ghost FileProvider domain registration stuck in a broken state.
Check if you have one:
plutil -p ~/Library/Application\ Support/FileProvider/com.getdropbox.dropbox.fileprovider/Domains.plistIf it exists and shows "Disconnected" => true or "Path" => "FPFS_SHOULD_NOT_BE_USED", that's your problem. Dropbox sees this ghost domain on startup and disables garcon, expecting FileProvider to handle Finder integration instead — but the FileProvider domain is broken, so neither works.
The fix (quit Dropbox first):
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/FileProvider/com.getdropbox.dropbox.fileprovider/
sudo killall fileproviderd
sudo pluginkit -e ignore -i com.getdropbox.dropbox.fileprovider
sudo pluginkit -e use -i com.getdropbox.dropbox.garcon
open /Applications/Dropbox.appThis directory is managed by macOS, not Dropbox — that's why reinstalling Dropbox never fixes it. Full writeup is here.
