dropbox extension: how to turn off?

Welcome,

Dropbox is an Application rather than an extension, it is normally started via "Login Items" on your User definition.

If you don't want to use Dropbox at all delete the App from the Applications folder.....

If this is not the case please revert.

Regards,

Shawn

I'm having the same issue, and I think you're misunderstanding the question, Shawn. The new version of Dropbox with Yosemite includes a Finder extension that adds a garish, bright green checkmark next to items in the Finder to show they've been synced. Some of us find these checkmarks to be ugly and distracting. You can go into System Preferences and click off the Dropbox extension, disabling the checkmarks. BUT... Dropbox turns the extension right back on the next time it starts up.

It isn't that we want to stop using Dropbox... it's that we want to turn off the associated Finder Extension and have it stay off.

Do you mean the icon in the Finder toolbar next to Search?

Hold down Command and drag it out of the toolbar.

For the Dropbox shortcut in the Sidebar, you can get rid of it the same way.

No. We're talking about the green checkmarks in the finder next to each filename as seen in the attached screenshot.

I do not see this with my Dropbox installation.

I do not see this with my Dropbox installation.

Funny enough, I didn't either... at first. A friend was complaining about it on her system, showed me some screenshots, I did some research, and discovered the extension. The extension was turned on on my system already, and even though I wasn't seeing the green checkmarks at that point, I turned the extension off. Ever since then, they've started to show up. And now I can't get rid of them, and I see others are having the same issue.

I'm having the same issue. Can't turn off the green check marks, it keeps turning back on after a reboot.

David,

Quite correct, my bad....

Regards,

Shawn

This issue was bothering me as well. I found a solution that worked here: http://www.mrh.is/writing/about/how-to-get-rid-of-the-new-dropbox-checkmarks

@gauchofref: Thank you - this helped me turn off the green tick icon.

However, I still have the problem of having the Dropbox toolbar extension icon force itself into my Finder toolbar. I disable it in System Preferences > Extensions, but each time I restart my system, relaunch Finder, or even just open a New Finder window that darn thing shows up again.

Any idea how to get rid of this? It's really annoying and obnoxious.

@mkpub, I used to get the Dropbox toolbar extension in Mountain Lion and Mavericks, but it isn't appearing in my Finder windows in Yosemite, so I can't experiment with this. My recommendation would be to follow the same process I linked above to get rid of the green check marks, but to change the name of the toolbar-icons.icns or play around with the other items in the Resources folder. Let us know if this works.

I tried that — but all that happens is that the icon is removed; instead I get a question mark in the Finder toolbar.

BTW, I noticed that after clearing the checkbox next to the Dropbox extension in System Preferences, it automatically is checked again within seconds. It looks like there is some Dropbox process running in the background that does that.

Interesting you're not seeing it anymore; I can't get it to stop and it appears to the very left, always in my way when I want to backtrack. I'm at the point of getting rid of Dropbox altogether and forgo the convenience of syncing my iOS and OS X apps at this point. I can't believe the Dropbox team is doing this.

I too am seeing the Dropbox extension returning to life after I uncheck the Finder/Drobox extension option. I suspect there is a daemon process running to keep the extension alive. I will try Gaucharof's suggestion of re-naming the files inside the Dropbox package but I would prefer something more permanent.

I will either downgrade Dropbox to an earlier version of Dropbox and see if I can get around this - and if not, forget about Dropbox entirely.

Based on the findings from http://www.mrh.is I opened the culprit file with Preview, opened the Adjust Colors tool within Preview, and reduced the Saturation for each of the sizes of the icon to a dull green.

No more absurdly garish check mark to hinder my vision: