Remove the Dropbox context menu entry

Recently in an update to the Mac OS X Dropbox client they added a ‘Move to Dropbox’ right click menu entry (without asking).

Here’s how to remove it.

In the terminal run:

sudo rm -rf /Library/DropboxHelperTools

Thanks Dan Merino.

2 Responses to Remove the Dropbox context menu entry

  1. This is no longer working, probably the setting was overwritten. Time to find a more permanent fix…

  2. Ben King says:

    Dropbox now has a command line option to remove the ‘move to dropbox’. http://tweakers.net/downloads/33082/dropbox-210.html

    1. quit dropbox
    2. run /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS/Dropbox –move-to-dropbox=False
    3. restart dropbox

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