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pgr
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

Remove Dropbox options from the context menu.

Hi, recently Dropbox has started cramming my Explorer context menu with all of these options I mostly don't plan to use:

 

Come on. Do you think it's ok to just dump all your stuff in there? If every app on my PC would do the same, would I have to manage dozens of entries on that menu? This is terrible UI design, it's bloat, it's disrespectful of your users.

 

How do I turn that off? I only use "Copy dropbox link", not the others.

 

Thanks.

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  • Mike's avatar
    Mike
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago

    I'm pretty sure there used to be one Dropbox entry with the various options in a sub-menu. I'm guessing the current version is a bug that causes the options to not be in the sub-menu? I just noticed it today, I'm using Dropbox 201.4.5552 on Windows 10. Hopefully it will be fixed soon, thank you!

     

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
    2 years ago
    Mike wrote:

    I'm guessing the current version is a bug that causes the options to not be in the sub-menu?

    This isn't a bug. It's been like this for a very long time.

  • Peter730's avatar
    Peter730
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago

    Please add a way to get rid of all the dropbox in the right click context menu.

    Or at least join them to one "fold out" line. Like "show>" "sort by>" "New>" and so on.

     

    But, really, i saw someone brought this issue up in 2020- and it is still not fixed.


    I have to exit dropbox to make the context menu go away, then I forget to turn it on again. 


    Most programs have this as a setting, so you can turn it on/off AND change what is on the menu. 

    I bet Microsoft could help you if you sent them an E-mail asking for help on how to make it a "fold out" menu.

     

    *why do i need to add a Lable to be able to post this? None of the lables makes any sense to this issue....

     

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