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Dropbox Icon missing Windows 10
I fired my laptop up a couple of days ago and I noticed that the dropbox icon in the taskbar was missing. I checked task manager and dropbox is running theres just no icon and if I kill the task and...
Hi, I had this same (infuriating!) problem and fixed it thusly:
Right click on the systray area
select Properties
then select Notification area > customize
At the top there is a link to "Select which icons appear on the taskbar"
Go in there and toggle whatever setting you see for your dropbox icon.
Exit out -- should be fixed.
In my case the dropbox icon was set to "on" and I toggled it off. After exiting the dialog, I had my dropbox icon back in the "show hidden icons" area. I repeated the above and toggled the dropbox icon back to "on" and now it is back in my systray where it belongs.
I hope this helps someone.
Lori
Solution: as of Sep 15 2018, right click on taskbar in windows, select "Taskbar settings," and scroll down to section "Notification Area," and select "Select which Icons Appear on the Taskbar." here you should see DROPBOX and can turn it on!
Hi Jane
Yes, I'll try to find time to do that at the weekend when work is (I hope!) a bit quieter
Ros
Jane
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Hi again Jane I haven't been able to find time to do a full uninstall reinstall yet, that will be over the weekend but wanted to report that Dropbox isn't syncing at all. I had a document to update today. It is an older version of Word so that it is accessible to more users and I have that old version on my old Win7 laptop. I started that up and the Dropbox icon was showing. In the middle of updating the document the icon disappeared completely. The document hasn't updated.
I tried updating it from this Win10 laptop and again it hasn't synced and I have had to share it with colleagues by email
Hopefully this will be resolved by uninstalling/reinstalling on both laptops but it will also mean conflicted copies of the document as both are saved under the same name, in the same Dropbox folder, on separate laptops.
I can get on with the Win7 laptop now as I am not using it for anything else currently, this laptop will be tomorrow or Sunday
Ros
Actualy, no go back on that, the icon has reappeared on Win7. I'll not uninstall then
With the Win 7 laptop, yes they do. I hope to do the reinstallation of Dropbox on this laptop later today
Oddly I am unable to uninstall dropbox. I am using control panel>uninstall or change a program. I have selected dropbox, hit uninstall and then when given the choice to change or uninstall I chose uninstall. Twice. Each time it has said uninstall failed.
What now?
Trying once a gain to upload a screenshot but again, as previously happened, it is not working 'An Unexpected Error has occurred.'
About two thirds of the way through the uninstall process, a message that it has failed
Happily though Photobucket is working for once, here is a screenshot
- Jane
Thanks Jane, response sent
