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dukiebluedoc
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Dropbox Mac has hijacked my Screenshots

I have Dropbox on my Mac OS  Sonoma. As soon as it was installed, my Screenshots disappeared from my Mac Desktop and appeared in Dropbox. How can I stop this? I do NOT want my screenshots in Dropb...
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Walter
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2 years ago

Hey Slimink - sorry to hear you're having issues with this.

 

Do you see the Dropbox icon in your menu bar at the moment? 

 

If so, clicking on it should bring up the app's preferences from where you'd be able to navigate to the Backups tab to disable the option to have your screenshots saved in Dropbox.

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Slimink
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Hi! I have the dropbox icon in my menu bar at the bottom of my Mac. I click on it and it launches my dropbox files, but no account icon head. in the top of the window, there is a black dropbox icon but the only drop down options are "request files" , "view on dropbox.com", "make online only".....

When I click on "View on dropbox.com" I do end up getting an account icon head, so I click that and get a few choices: Settings is one of them. But when I select that, the tabs are: General, Plan, Security, Notifications, Apps, Sharing.  So, Under GENERAL, I scroll down to "Preferences" and only get these options: Language, Date, Time Zone, Early Access, Manually Add Contacts, Default Access to Folder Uploads (toggle is off), Dropbox System Extension (toggle is On), Online files only on Mac (toggle is off), Default Browser Context Menu (toggle is off). So...now I am stuck not seeing options that I think will allow to to disable DropboxCapture from hijacking my screenshots.  Any advice?

 

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

    incorporated edit above

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    Piche
    New member | Level 1
    11 months ago

    When you click on the black "dropbox" icon on the top right of your mac screen, you will see the extended window and at the top right the icon with your face/avatar. Click on that and under preferences, you will find a backup section. In that section at the bottom tun off screenshots. 

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