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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).

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So how can I disable this integration (remove the menu item) without disabling Dropbox sync?

graham
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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
WinEunuuchs2Unix
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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.

Odair Augusto Trujillo Orozco
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