When Finder returns, your Dropbox folder will be free of the green check marks.įor more, I present nine tips to be a better Finder user. Hold down the Option key and right-click the Finder icon in the Dock, and then click Relaunch. Some menu icons can’t be removed this way and a command drag. The icon will disappear into a puff of dust, the same way an icon from the Dock or sidebar disappear. You will need to relaunch Finder for the change to take effect. If your Mac menu bar is starting to resemble an icon farm, remember that you can remove items from the menu bar by holding down the Command key and dragging items out of the menu. This way, if I find I miss the feeling of warmth and security that green sea of check marks provides, I can just go back and remove my edit suffix and return the file name to its original name, thus restoring Dropbox's green check marks in Finder. Change the name of the overlay-uptodate.icns file, which is the file for the green check mark icons.

Inside will be a number of folders and four overlay files. Open it and then open the Resources folder. Right-click on this file and again select Show Package Contents.Īgain, you'll see a lone folder titled Contents. Inside the PlugIns folder will be a lone file, garcon.appex. Open it and then open the PlugIns folder. You'll see a lone folder titled Contents. Right-click on it and select Show Package Contents. Open Finder and locate the Dropbox application, which you likely have stored in your Applications folder. That is, one that is not littered with green check marks. Thankfully, there is a way to get rid of the sea of green check marks so your Dropbox folder looks like the rest of your folders in Finder. I'd rather just know if a file has failed to sync or perhaps is in the process of syncing. After I upgraded to OS X Yosemite last year, my Dropbox folder in Finder insists on displaying green check mark icons next to each and every item inside it, letting me know without any shadow of a doubt that each and every file has been synced.

Dropbox on mac icon at top not black