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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!
Jane
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffSpoiler
To resolve this, first try launching the app again. If this doesn’t work, you can and sign in to your Dropbox account when prompted. You can easily relaunch our app from your Applications folder, where you can find and run the Dropbox app.
From there, I’m interested in seeing whether Dropbox appears on your Task Manager; do you see any Dropbox-related processes there running in the background?
I am having the same issue and none of the suggested fixes actually work.
I went in to task manager and ended the Dropbox task then tried to reopen Dropbox but that seems to be what the issue is, three Dropbox.exe apps pop up in task manager, then one of the icons turns grey and says suspended next to it then 2 icons disappear before the 3rd icon also finally disappears. the systray icon is there briefly but grey, then when you move your mouse to it the icon just goes away.
Dropbox was working perfectly fine, but now the files on my Windows Desktop are not syncing up, I can still save files in my Dropbox folder on my HDD but its just not sysncing at all but I am connected to the internet and everything else seems to be working ok.
- Jane
