Page 1 of 1
Forum

Welcome to the Tweaking4All community forums!
When participating, please keep the Forum Rules in mind!

Topics for particular software or systems: Start your topic link with the name of the application or system.
For example “MacOS X – Your question“, or “MS Word – Your Tip or Trick“.

Please note that switching to another language when reading a post will not bring you to the same post, in Dutch, as there is no translation for that post!



macOS - Dropbox - H...
 
Share:
Notifications
Clear all

[Solved] macOS - Dropbox - How to remove "Move to Dropbox" in Finder

1 Posts
1 Users
0 Likes
2,754 Views
 Hans
(@hans)
Famed Member Admin
Joined: 11 years ago
Posts: 2678
Topic starter  

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! 


   
ReplyQuote
Share: