
I was about to ditch Dropbox for good and switch to some other service like Google Drive. Spotlight search (notice the wrong icon for a plain text file) But when I would do the same for files that are not in my Dropbox folder everything seemed to work. xlsx) or for a plain text file (.txt) that these files would have the same icon – the Finder icon. Then I noticed that when I search for an excel file (.xls or. The Spotlight would just not just wouldn’t open any of my Dropbox files!

Dropbox won t open on mac mac#
I tried just about anything: from reinstalling Dropbox to syncing all files I have in Dropbox again, to reindexing all files I have on my mac and nothing worked out. It was driving me nuts for couple of days! This was driving me mad as it also affected my productivity as now I would open Dropbox folder and then manually find the file I need and then double click to open it. Spotlight would find the files but once I select the file and click on it (or press return) it wouldn’t open the file with app associated with the file. I would normally use a Spotlight search to search the files I have in my Dropbox folder that I commonly use (excel, word and plain text documents). This issue started to appear on macOS 13 Ventura after recent Dropbox update.

Mac. From then on, you’re automatically signed into Dropbox when you log You need to sign into Dropbox the first time you use it on this
Dropbox won t open on mac download#
If you just signed up for Dropbox it may download automatically.If you find Dropbox on your Mac, skip to Signing into Dropbox. Dropbox may already be installed on your Mac in the Launchpad or Applications folder.
