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Where is the gear icon on my Dropbox desktop app?
Anyone know where to find the gear icon on Dropbox?
I have Windows 10 and finally, finally found the gear icon and preferences. I agree that finding this should have been easier -- it should appear when one clicks the DropBox icon on one's desktop. But it doesn't. I created a very quick and dirty set of 4 screenshots that shows, in a very simple way (which is how I can understand these things) how I got to it. It starts with (1) the "show hidden icons" button that looks like an up arrow, on the lower right-hand corner of my screen (the area known as the "systems tray" - then (2) I clicked the DropBox icon (has a little check-mark on it) - then (3), a little box opens (labeled, "up to date" and lists "recently changed") and, lo and behold, the blasted gear icon appears in the upper right corner of it, so (4) I clicked that and got a dropdown menu that included "preferences." My very amateur set of screenshots is here:
Robert S.
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Super User alumniTo answer this question for some you - my computer like many of yours DOES NOT have the gear icon when doing as stated many times by Robert S. Instead, you have to Right Click on the Drop Box icon in your System Tray - to the left of the date and time at the bottom right corner of your screen. Only after right clicking with my mouse does the pop up come up that has the Gear.
This is clearly self-contradictory.
The gear icon is exactly where it's supposed to be, i.e., system tray > Dropbox client icon > gear icon, so how do you arrive at the conclusion it isn't there?
(BTW, left-click or right-click, both bring up the exact same dialog box.)
Dropbox should not need the extra steps to do that, but, its possible you've tweak something on your machine.
It doesn't and none are evident here.
