

The downside to disabling Dropbox’s Finder integration is that doing so eliminates the sync icons in the Finder for files and folders synced with Dropbox, along with the special Dropbox options in the Finder’s contextual menu.

On a hunch that Dropbox was somehow involved, I had even tried revoking its Accessibility access, and although that seemed to help for a while, the frequent beachballs returned. I first tried all the usual fixes, like deleting all the Finder plist files in ~/Library/Preferences/ and running First Aid in Disk Utility. For more Dock tricks, see “ macOS Hidden Treasures: Dominate the Dock,” 6 March 2017.) (If you ever need to do this, hold down Option, click and hold the Finder icon in the Dock, and choose Relaunch. Specifically, I was seeing the dreaded beachballs of death far more often than I care to, and the Finder was freezing regularly, forcing me to relaunch it multiple times per day.
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#1612: OS suggestions, new accessibility features, higher cellular prices, Chrome OS Flex for old Macs, Memorial Day hiatusįreezing Finder? Dropbox and Overstuffed Folders May Be the Culpritįor the last few months, my iMac had been getting slower and slower.
#DROPBOX FOR MAC MONTEREY UPDATE#
