I just installed Dropbox on Ubuntu 18.04. It decided that I would like having a menu item on Files (Nautilus) to move things to Dropbox (I don't).
So how can I disable this integration (remove the menu item) without disabling Dropbox sync?
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I use Dropbox all the time and I can't be certain what you mean by a menu item on Nautilus. Perhaps you could edit your question to show a graphic of what you mean. – graham Oct 25 '19 at 05:30
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@Graham For some reason I can't take a screen shot with a context menu. What I mean is that if you right click on a file in Nautilus, I have a "Dropbox" item in the context menu that I don't want. – a06e Oct 25 '19 at 05:42
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You can do that with Shutter... Are you sure that it is not just a symlink or a local network share accidentally created? – graham Oct 25 '19 at 06:03
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I have added the screenshot for you. I don't see a way of removing it (without removing Dropbox which you don't want to do) but you could disable Dropbox by opening a terminal and typing dropbox stop (and dropbox start to start it off again) – graham Oct 25 '19 at 11:52
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@Graham Thanks! – a06e Oct 25 '19 at 12:01
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I did a little digging and got this so far: https://askubuntu.com/questions/878961/removing-the-move-to-dropbox-context-menu-option-thunar-16-04 – WinEunuuchs2Unix Oct 25 '19 at 17:24
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In Ubuntu 16.04 you can remove the context sensitive menu option for Dropbox with this:
sudo mv /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libnautilus-dropbox.so{,.bak}
A backup is created in case you wish to revert (for example too much functionality is removed).
Next close Nautilus and reopen it:
nautilus -q
nautilus
In Ubuntu 18.04 the directory name has changed to /usr/share/nautilus-share/interfaces but I haven't got around to testing 18.04, 19.04 or 19.10 yet.
In Ubuntu 22.10 the directory name has changed to:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nautilus/extensions-4
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@PabloBianchi I checked the link and the author did type it that way. – WinEunuuchs2Unix Nov 01 '22 at 22:29
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1Neither of these paths exist in Ubuntu 22.10 and the latest version of Dropbox – Flimm Mar 29 '23 at 12:15
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@Flimm Thank you for sharing. I've updated the answer with your comment. – WinEunuuchs2Unix Mar 30 '23 at 16:51
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@PabloBianchi Indeed. I've edited the answer. Thank you for pointing that out. – WinEunuuchs2Unix Mar 30 '23 at 16:54
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Some packages of Dropbox for Ubuntu has additional extensions, be aware to rename extension-2.0
sudo mv /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0/libnautilus-dropbox.so /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0/libnautilus-dropbox.so.bak
I have not checked if it's necessary, but take it into account.
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This path doesn't exist on Ubuntu 22.10 and the latest version of Dropbox – Flimm Mar 29 '23 at 12:15