Recentlyupgraded the dropbox app and Mac OS to Sonoma. Dropbox icon is no longer in the top menu unless I have already opened it from the finder window sidebar. Also there are no blue or green icons to indicate if files have synced. And no globe icon to go directly to dropbox in my browser so I can check to see if everything uploaded. Dropbox is not nearly as easy to use now. Anyway to get it back to how it was before?
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Opening the app opens a folder showing my dropbox contents, but the icon doesn't appear in the menu bar and the blue and green icons are still missing. I do see a couple of cloud download icons on 2 of the items, which is new. Did the dropbox update get rid of the blue and green icons and change where the dropbox icon is located from the top menu to the finder window sidebar? These changes are not helpful, as it takes more clicking and time to do what I did before the dropbox app update.
I have the same problem but my files and folders are not even allowing me to 'make available offline' and no sync status icon shows up. I tried reinstalling Dropbox and also setting Finder Extension to be on and off. Nothing is working for me. It is a new M3 Mac with 14.2.1 MacOS.
How to Fix Dropbox/Mega Smart Sync Icons Not Showing on MacOS. Please navigate to System Preferences > Extensions > Finder Extensions and then disable and reenable the Dropbox/Mega finder extension as shown below. Reboot your computer to apply changes.
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Dropbox beta has an incomprehensible behavior when using the file provider feature on macOS.
As shown in the finder screenshot below, I have set "Make available offline" except for a few folders. However, the cloud with arrow icon(next to the dropbox icon) is "not downloaded" and the dropbox status in the menubar is "your files are up to date".
No matter how long I waited, the "your files are up to date" status didn't change, so I finally clicked on the cloud icon in the finder to actually download the files. After that, the dropbox status didn't change even after hours of waiting in "syncing..." as shown in the screenshot below.
I'm just writing this after changing my Dropbox/Movies directory with "Make avialable offline", and dropbox is in "syncing x files..." status.
As for the icon in the finder, do I understand it as follows?
1. the "dropbox icon" in the finder: this is dropbox's "goal", i.e. the state it wants to be available offline, and does not mean it is currently available offline.
2. if there's no icon in place of the dropbox icon in the finder, it's only available online.
3. cloud icon in finder: an arrow down icon means it's downloading, no icon means it's "actually" downloaded.
4. the user can only assume that "real" offline access is available when the dropbox icon is offline available and the cloud icon is gone.
Agree with OP here - this is very confusing and not in the spirit of "it just works" anymore. Is there a way to opt out of the Dropbox version that is using the File Provider API? The article here is only mentioning how to opt in - but how would I switch back to the original Dropbox?
I am unable to connect to a remote computer. It is on-line and the console shows the computer's icon green, which I think means that there is a session in progress. I know, however, that there is not. I had connected successfully yesterday. Perhaps that session hung and didn't shut down correctly? Is there any way to clear that?
Extremely inconvenient. The same problem happens to me on random computers, requiring my clients to reset their computer before it will allow a reconnect. I've actually had to have clients install different remote software (Veam Tiewer) just so I am able do the work remotely. This is unnacceptable for a paid product.
I just now upgraded from Ubuntu 22.10 to Ubuntu 23.04 using the GUI upgrade tool.Since the upgrade, little green circles with numbers have appeared in the upper right corner of some of the icons in the Dock. For example:
In a search, I have not been able to find documentation of this.The behaviour is a little like what is described in this user's question: What do the RED numbers on the Gnome Files Dock Icon mean?...but the numbers are not consistent with the number of GUI windows I have open and are not shown at all for some apps.
It almost seems like a bug, the story icons in our Company Managed projects are grey with a circle - which I've never seen before. In the past (and currently with Team Managed projects) the story icons are green with a white bookmark.
@Jack Brickey thanks for that feedback. We just set up our account yesterday, started with a Free plan. We upgraded (trial) to Standard today, but it's only myself and one other admin, and that person did not adjust icons (nor did I)..
I have recently bought an imac and setup time machine with a portable external 2tb passport drive. It has been working fine doing hourly backups but I have noticed that the green tm icon that shows on the external hdd icon has changed back to the standard orange?
It should change back once it has backed up. Are you in the habit ofshutting down your Mac at night. If so I'd recommend you put it to sleep in future and only shut down when you are away from home or not going to use it for a few days.
But with my new iMac its silent and it just seems like they are designed to be on 24/7 unless like you say, away for a few days or more, after all the power button is at the back. So Im leaving it on all the time.
I do have another little niggle it seems where apple mail does not seem to check mail automatically. I did have it on automatically check then tried every 5 minutes but so far Ive not seen mail alerts.
As for email notifications, it only seems to check for mail when I open the mail app, I have apple mail set up to automatically check and I have tried every 5 minutes also. Went into apple mail and I had 7 new emails, so somethings up with that.
Every so often I see a red or green dot that covers the upper-right quarter of the BTT icon in the Menu bar. However, try and search as I might I cannot figure out what these dots signify, as they will appear and disappear randomly (or I'm doing something I'm unaware of). Can anyone tell me what these dots signify? Thanks.
I have tried to Google this issue for quite awhile and can't find any definitive solution. Now in my management studio on my workstation, the icon on the server instance is simply a blank white circle with no green arrow in it. I logged on as 'sa' and I can't use right-click the instance icon to select "start", "stop", "pause", "resume" or "restart" because they are all grayed out. But all the rest operations are available.
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