Comments on: Screencast: How to hide the Dropbox menu bar icon

By: Alvi

Alvi — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:37:42 +0000

thanks a lot, i also replaced it since it can get a little crowdy and it’s really annoying to not be able to move nor remove that icon, i just replaced the logo and the idle png’s so i can find out if something is wrong or if it actually works

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 14 May 2010 18:21:09 +0000

I’ve used a similar technique in the past, except instead of regular full-size, err, full-width icons… I kept the height of the png the same, but made the width just a couple px wide. this way, if an app loads in the menu bar before another that I do want to keep, it won’t show a space between them where the “hidden” one is ghosted with a clear png. I’m not sure if it works as well now, as it has been a couple years since I tried it, but it made for a much less busy menu bar… of course, when I did it that way, I was assuming I had access to that app’s prefs and other input via other methods; dropbox does not let you, so the icon up there is necessary to at least be wide enough to catch with a mouse.

By: Gerardo

Gerardo — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:07:20 +0000

The problem with this solution is that now everytime i turn dropbox on, it ask me if i allow it to conect…is there some fix to this?

By: Screencast: How to hide the Dropbox menu bar icon Staff

Screencast: How to hide the Dropbox menu bar icon Staff — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:14:50 +0000

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By: My Desktop (12/11/2009) « mashby

My Desktop (12/11/2009) « mashby — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:18:11 +0000

[...] Removed / Hid icons from the Menu BarI used to have a have a TON of icons in the menu bar. Then the thought occurred to me, “Why do I have so much clutter and distractions?” So I took a look at what I actually needed and dispensed with the rest. The only icon I’m undecided about at this time is the DropBox icon. There’s no way to remove the icon within the app itself, but there is a method to hide the icon. [...]

By: JiPé

JiPé — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:51:54 +0000

Thanks Erik for the tutorial. I also like to keep my Dropbox icon in the menu bar, but with your tutorial, I succeed to change some of the other icons so I have now a nicer and cleaner system menu bar.

Here’s my post about how to keep your OS X menu bar nice and clean.

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:19:26 +0000

Brad,

I made this screencast on Snow Leopard and it worked fine.

Erik

By: Brad Allred

Brad Allred — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:58:19 +0000

Erik-

I'm curious as to whether or not this adjustment in the menu bar has been tried within the new Snow Leopard? I know that people changing menu bar options (ie. color of the menu Apple icon) inside Leopard have had no problems, but the same modifications in Snow Leopard rendered their computers desktop unusable. Thoughts?

By: Red Leader

Red Leader — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:18:52 +0000

Great post! That has been driving me nuts forever.

I actually went ahead and did the same thing for all the other apps in my menu bar. A whole lot less clutter, but still all the same function.

Cheers

By: Terrell

Terrell — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:00:32 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I had a reservation of replacing all of the icons as I would no longer know the status or if there was a problem.

I only replaced the idle.png and logo.png files and now only see an icon if there is a problem or when files are being updated.