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StopMessingWithOverlayIcons's avatar
StopMessingWithOverlayIcons
Helpful | Level 7
5 years ago

Add option to disable icon overlays in Windows Explorer

Please add an option to disable Dropbox icon overlays. It is so frustrating to remove Dropbox Shell Icon identifiers from the top of ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers list after each update!  It is disres...
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jonobo's avatar
jonobo
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

I'm getting ready to buy a Dropbox work account for my company. In general, I've been happy with Dropbox, but this one issue is almost a deal breaker. As others have said...the status of SVN folders is much more important to me than Dropbox folders.

 

They obviously must employ many coders so they have to deal with this themselves. How can this not be fixed by now??? 

 

Dropbox...PLEASE get your act together and take care of this.

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