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StopMessingWithOverlayIcons
5 years agoHelpful | Level 7
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...
bcgirton
4 years agoHelpful | Level 6
I find the little green checkmarks intrusive, also. We don't need to see anything when a file or folder is synced. Most files are synced most of the time. It's sufficient to show an overlay when a file is not synced. Even a not-synced overlay should be something that can be switched off. You provide an app that is an alternative to File Explorer which can instantly provide that metadata if someone is managing their file system intensively. Day to day, showing green checkmark overlays in File Explorer is worse than useless. It's annoying. Here's something you don't seem to get. In my book, Dropbox has one job: storing my files in the cloud. I do not want notes, a password vault, document signing, or any of the other fun toys you and other cloud services keep shoving at us. I already have other apps for all of those tasks, and I am happy with them as they are. You just need to do what you do as well as possible.
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