Screenshots - they're going to my Dropbox and I want them on my desktop. Help!

In the Dropbox app (from its menubar icon) click Preferences, then Import, and turn off "Save screenshots to Dropbox".

Matt

Matt I've been going nuts trying to work with terminals and this was so logical and easy. Many thanks!

ps it worked in Mavericks, for anyone out there considering slitting their wrists.

So when you say,"In the Dropbox app (from its menubar icon)" what does this mean? We have been having a terrible time with the Dropbox (trying to add a separate, different account on on computer). We kept getting solution instructions that say to click on the dropbox from the menu bar, but there is no dropbox icon on the bar at the bottom of the screen. The only place the dropbox icon shows up is in the finder. Going to apps and right clicking Open doesn't seem to open anything helpful either. Is there a way to do this from the website log in? Thanks

So when you say,"In the Dropbox app (from its menubar icon)" what does this mean?

This is the icon:

but there is no dropbox icon on the bar at the bottom of the screen.

That's because the Menu Bar is on the top of the screen, not the bottom.

Thank you for explaining - I did exactly the same as the OP, and I also didn't know what you meant by the menubar icon!

Matt, You're a star. I logged on to my dropbox account but couldn't see it tree. Didn't think about looking at the app icon at the top of the MAC screen. Thanks.

For what it's worth here's are screen shots of what to do. And yes, the screenshots went to my desktop, not Dropbox.

Step 1. Click on Dropbox icon at the top of your screen (even though it looks like i'm clicking on the one cloud icon)

Step 2. Go to the Cog at the bottom right and click on it to bring up the Preference option

Step 3. Click Preference

Step 4. Un-click "Share screenshots using Dropbox (and hey presto, screenshots now appear on your desktop again)

If you want them to go to a folder on your desktop then do this:

Step 1. Create a folder on the desktop called Screenshots

Step 2. Open Applications / Utilities / Terminal

Step 3. Type in this line exactly

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location Users/TheDays/Desktop/Screenshots

Note: My Mac is called "TheDays" so where you see this, replace it with your Mac's name

Step 4. Hit return

Step 5. Log off your Mac, log back in and hey presto again

Here's a screenshot of it

Good luck

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Thanks Matt

You are Awesome 🙂 Finally figured this out ... Thanks much!

Clear, cogent. completely cool. Accolades!😀

Matt - you're a genius!! I have been trying to turn off this crazy-annoying function all week! I never thought to even look at the 'elusive menu bar icon'. Thank you very much!