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alderking's avatar
alderking
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

Missing finder Smart Sync icons

This morning for some reason all the Smart Sync icons in finder windows have disappeared. Syncing is still functional, but the icons are gone. I've restarted, re-installed the app, toggled "enable Fi...
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  • Creative Soul's avatar
    Creative Soul
    4 years ago

    Okay I just relaunched the Finder and all my icons appeared again. I don't think the issue is DropBox... the issue is with Finder.  Sometimes toggling the view at the top of the window works (icons / list / columns)... it seems as though Finder needs 'refreshing' to see the icons.

Creative Soul's avatar
Creative Soul
Helpful | Level 6

How about sharing the solution with the rest of us? Isn't that the point of a forum? Why only email the solution to the person asking?

Creative Soul's avatar
Creative Soul
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago

Okay I just relaunched the Finder and all my icons appeared again. I don't think the issue is DropBox... the issue is with Finder.  Sometimes toggling the view at the top of the window works (icons / list / columns)... it seems as though Finder needs 'refreshing' to see the icons.

  • MB-21's avatar
    MB-21
    New member | Level 2
    4 years ago

    That worked perfectly Creative Soul! As soon as I launched force quit I could see the problem with "Dropbox Finder Extension". I just quit that and relaunched finder and all was back to normal. This has been driving me crazy for weeks, I've been having to use the web browser to share links as the options keep disappearing in Finder. Thank you! 

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