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jamiekuse
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Files on External Drives: No Right Click Functionality (Mac)

I work a lot with external drives and have found that I need to move files on to my internal drive to use any of the dropbox actions such as "share, send copy" etc. I would like to be able to use dropbox's functionality across all of my drives.


Is there any particular reason Dropbox treats files on external drives differently?

Any work arounds?

Thx!

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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
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    2 years ago

    Hi jamiekuse, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

     

    Currently, it is no longer possible to re-enable this right click option on Mac OS devices, as most context menus outside of the Dropbox folder aren't available.

     

    If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.

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