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 disrespectful to users to decide for them which overlays they need. I'm using TortoiseGit and I really need its overlays, they are useful and important for my work. Every time Dropbox updates I can no longer see status icons and have to go to Registry editor and remove newly added and USELESS Dropbox overlays.I've seen dozens of feature requests from Dropbox users for many years but Dropbox pretends everything is fine! UPD: I had patience to open a thread and communicate with Dropbox team on this issue. After almost 2 years, more than 100 upvotes they have just thrown my idea away suggesting me to edit Windows registry. I've heared your answer, that's how you treat your loyal users.So long Dropbox!

It is most important! We need it! Please fix it!

stdedos several annoyed people mean nothing to Dropbox. But dozens of their shouts in this thread can do a job.Thank you for your attention. Please consider voting up and sharing this idea.

The Dropbox leadership needs quit fending off the multitude of small user complaints. You are a subsidiary and a niche service provider, not a tech giant squatting on an operating system with bundled services. The giants are like gravity; everyone does business with them, but they want to know everything about their customers in return. You do not have the ability to compete with them in terms of the breadth of applications and depth of integration they can offer. As it stands, the only reason anyone would rationally choose Dropbox (or any independent cloud storage provider) over the cloud storage solutions built into every laptop and phone is better privacy; the unenforceable, incomprehensible legal assurances that each giant uses to paper over the ugly reality of their business are not enough for some of us. However, if Dropbox wishes to continue to be relevant, they are going to have to do more listening to the little gripes and wants, and engaging. I believe it should be possible to do this and still make a buck for the bean counters to count, but you are going to have to engage better than the giants do, or I predict you will no longer be relevant a decade from now. We don't need another take-it-or-leave it service bleeding our bank accounts.

I agree it should be for users to decide whose icons they prefer... In the meantime, I found this web page which describes a fix (if the conflict is between Dropbox and TortoiseGit). It worked fine for me but I still think Dropbox should fix this (or at least have an option whereby users can decide whether Dropbox icons are wanted or not...)

Dear Dropbox Development Team, How many times do paying customers need to hit you over the head with the problem about messing with user selected Windows folder icons? How many? Apparently whatever WE do as a community has no effect on motivating you to get this problem fixed. I have been a Dropbox customer for about five years! Yep, five years. During that time you still DO NOTHING. ONE SIMPLE REQUEST. Wake up!! As a community we should all post a request (thousands per day), and just inundate you with the same request, until you fix the problem. How about it community! I depend on tools like this to di my job everyday. I don't need any dead weight to make my job any harder than it is!!! Get cracking!!

Add option to disable icon overlays in Windows Explorer

Mr T
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago
Thanks StopMessingWithOverlayIcons , you got my vote :sunglasses:
(despite I'm preferring to simply uninstall dropbox to get rid of this problem)
stas_2003
New member | Level 2
4 years ago
+1 to this. As a simultanious user of both TortoiseGit and TortoiseSVN I suffer from this issue pretty frequently. I am currently trying out a free DP account as well as other major cloud storages to decide which one I will start paying for later. And ignoring such an issue literally for years is a very sensitive disadvantage. And placing as many spaces at the beginning of your registry keys as needed to become alphabetically preceeding transforms this issue into something significantly worse.
Steve123456
New member | Level 2
4 years ago
I desperatly want to disable the overlay icons. They are making my entire explorer TERRIBLY slow. Every time I go to a new folder, they all try to refresh and it's not instant. It's one by one slow...
StopMessingWithOverlayIcons
Helpful | Level 7
4 years ago
Emma among over 1500 ideas that have at least 1 vote there are just 7 ideas with more votes than this one and status "Need more votes"
Will Santa be kind to us this year and review it with Dropbox staff? :innocent:
SteveMagruder
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago
I ran into this issue with Tortoise overlays today and I joined just to upvote this. What a nuisance.
dr43113
New member | Level 2
4 years ago
Agreed , and upvoted. To get around it, I just shared the folder, then created a shortcut to the share and it works fine (at least so far).
Walter
Dropbox Staff
4 years ago

Hi all; thanks for your ongoing feedback and thoughts on this!

I just dropped by to let you know that this idea has been passed along to the team for review.

Thankyou all for your suggestions and to everyone who has supported this idea so far!
Stargx
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago
Great news. Thank you!
luckyluke007
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago
For the love of god, please fix this, ... Just had to manually remove the stalking dropbox overlay icons again, and again and again and again ,....
I did try to 'fix' this by changing the user rights and denying SYSTEM from adding icons, but then the explorer context menu stops working, and this one I really need to send upload links to customers. REALLY ANNOYING
NigDig
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago
I hope they do fix this as per Walter's comment in January. A colleague has shared a dropbox folder and so I had to enable dropbox and yet again all my other folder icons disappeared, reminding me that even with the newest dropbox release it has not been fixed. I have convinced the colleague to drop dropbox and use OneDrive instead so the problem has gone away.