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[Solved] macOS - Dropbox - How to remove "Move to Dropbox" in Finder
(@hans)
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January 28, 2019 11:04 PM
Dropbox is awesome, in my opinion anyway.
There are only two things that bother me;
1) Aliases/Symbolic links are followed and completely synced ...
Not bad on it's own, unless you're a developer and have a shortcut to "Applications" for making DMG files. The entire freakin' Applications directory gets synced as well and guess what: your Dropbox account will be full in no time ... and we didn't ask for this!
Still have to find a fix for that one ...
2) The "Move to Dropbox" option in Finder (right click a file) ...
I NEVER use this option and instead frequently click it by accident instead of a "Move to Trash".
This one can be removed easily though.
- Open a Terminal Window
- Type:
/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS/Dropbox --move-to-dropbox=False
Dropbox will now remove the option from the Finder contextual menu ... awesome!