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Dropbox Mac has hijacked my Screenshots

dukiebluedoc

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 Dropbox.

They need to be on my Mac desktop.

Thanks for any help--as a last resort I will just get rid of Dropbox from my Mac if there is no remedy for this.

Caroline

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Walter

Hey @dukiebluedoc - sorry to hear about this.

Have you tried disabling the feature through the app's preferences?

Let me know and we'll take it from there, Caroline.

dukiebluedoc

Couldn't find any apps preferences that would apply.

I have completely deleted DropBox from my Mac, and my screenshots are now back on my Mac Desktop.

If you have any ideas how I could prevent this from happening again, I am willing to reinstall Dropbox.

Walter

You should be able to see the option that allows you to save your screenshots to Dropbox in the app's preferences under the backups tab @dukiebluedoc

If you choose to reinstall the app and give it a go, let me know of the outcome!

Slimink

I am having the same issue, but I cannot find where "preferences" nor where it allows me to turn off how my screen shots are managed. I do NOT want to have DropboxCapture automatically take my screenshots and post them wherever they go (cannot find that either.) This setting is not easy to find. Please help. I have a lot in Dropbox but this is a nuisance I am I having to consider if I am going to delete my account because of it.

Slimink

Back ups tab? Where is that located? (please don't say under "Preferences" since that is an illusive tab on a MacBook Pro, also.)

Walter

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.

Slimink

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

incorporated edit above

Jay

Hi @Slimink, if you click the Dropbox icon once, do you see an avatar or initials on the top right, like here?

Are you able to click it to see the Preferences for the desktop app, and not the website like you described previously?

Piche

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.