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michkov
Helpful | Level 6
9 months ago
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How to disable clipboard content overwrite when taking screenshots?

I just found out that when taking a screenshot with Dropbox on Windows 10, Dropbox puts a share url into your clipboard. I would like to disable that feature.

All I could find was a seven year old discussion of the problem for MacOS and the options mentioned there aren't available to me.

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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    9 months ago
    michkov wrote:

    I just found out that when taking a screenshot with Dropbox on Windows 10, Dropbox puts a share url into your clipboard. I would like to disable that feature.

    You can disable that in Dropbox Preferences.

     

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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
    9 months ago
    michkov wrote:

    I just found out that when taking a screenshot with Dropbox on Windows 10, Dropbox puts a share url into your clipboard. I would like to disable that feature.

    You can disable that in Dropbox Preferences.

     

  • michkov's avatar
    michkov
    Helpful | Level 6
    9 months ago

    Cheers, funny that, I saw the setting and that it was turned off, yet DB still did the thing. Turns out that cycling the setting sets the flag.

  • Theresa's avatar
    Theresa
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    9 months ago

    Hi michkov, I am glad to see our SuperUser Rich has helped you stop your Screenshots copying to your clipboard. 

    By the way, I'm Theresa a Community Manager here at Dropbox HQ 👩‍💻. You might see me buzzing about the Community, I love to hear all about how our members use Dropbox on the daily 🙌.

    If you are open to sharing your Dropbox story, please let me know.

    T 😺 (Dropbox Community Manager)

  • seuqence's avatar
    seuqence
    New member | Level 2
    9 months ago

    This was driving me nuts until I tried cycling it, thanks! ✨

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