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The Dropbox Right-click/Context Menu option does not appear any more in Windows Explorer 8.1
I am having the exact same problem, no context menu that would allow me to share link. This is on Windows 10 Dropbox v53.3.4.67 (and several before that). Any suggestions would be welcome.
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I don't know how to use the tray icon to it's full potential, but there is a check mark in the bottom left and the words "Up to date" ... is this what you are referring to?
If so, I just checked again and there is still no right-click context menu item for DropBox.
Just hovering my mouse over it also says "Up to date".
The tray icon is solid with no other "sub-icons" attached to it (as per https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/sync-icons#desktop)
I wish there was an option in the DropBox settings (gear icon) that could re-establish or re-install the context menu in Windows Explorer.
(or even toggle on and off so as to force the integration)
This would be a great feature for anyone else having this problem.
Hey! but just now that you had me mousing around in the system tray icon, I discovered a work around for my problem that will help to some degree...
Clicking the tray icon gives me the DropBox window that has a tab at the top called "Recent Files", and hovering over any one of those files shows the options to "Copy Link" !
This will be fine for newly added and recently added files, but I still won't be able to link to much older files. Not a problem in the short term, so this is a great relief when it's crucial to immediately share a newly uploaded file.
Still not the fix I was looking for, but thanks for "twisting my arm" to use that system tray icon which I've neglected for so long.
If you find anything that can get the context menu back, please email me. Thanks!
That is exactly what I was referring to - seems good in that respect. I’m also glad to hear that you found a (temporary) solution to your initial concern, but let’s see what we can do for the long term.
@don2d23 wrote:
I don't know how to use the tray icon to it's full potential, but there is a check mark in the bottom left and the words "Up to date" ... is this what you are referring to?
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I'm not seeing that the Help Center article you linked to has relevant information, but I'll read through it all again. If, in fact, Windows Explorer only allows a finite number of context menu items, is there a method (or a tutorial) to get rid of some of the other less important items in that list? If I can do that, maybe the DropBox icon will rear it's boxy blue head again.
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I really do appreciate you taking the time to help with this, Lusil.
In this case, I follow the steps until I get to the points that confuse me ... first of all I don't get #3 (scroll to the right for complete command line). I'm not an expert at Regedit, but I don't see any scroller.
I double checked to assure I'm in the correct registry key path. I've edited the Registry before, but this one is blazing new territory for me.
I've included a screen shot of the Regedit window. Maybe I'm missing a step or not doing something correctly.
Can you take a look at this and let me know if this is what I'm supposed to see?
If this is the complete list of what's supposed to be in my context menu when I right click a file, then either I'm in the wrong part of Regedit or I'm missing quite a few of the items that should be there.
Otherwise, it looks to me that Dropbox is there multiple times and certainly within the first 15 positions, but then again I don't know if I'm even looking at the right thing here.
Another quick thought: Could Dropbox have a known conflict with another program that might be corrupting the context menu? For instance, I subscribe to the Adobe suite of software and they are constantly revising and changing their programs and this requires intermittant re-installs and updates. I'm not pointing the finger here, because I think Adobe software is top notch. But it could be any number of programs that might have a problem with Dropbox or vice versa. Is this a possibility?
Here's another screen shot of my "right click" list in case it helps:
Again: some of these items I did not see in that Regedit session, so it makes me feel I wasn't editing the registry quite right.
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