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How to turn off notification "Because it's online-only it won't be moved to your Recycle bin"
Does someone know, how to turn off this annoying notification?
"Delete xxx.xxx? Because it's online-only it won't be moved to your Recycle bin"?
Hey there bigsky - how are you today?
I moved your post under this thread as your inquiry echoes the OP's query and to keep things neat around our Community.
I double checked this internally and when it comes to the Smart Sync notifications and the option to disable them, this not possible I'm afraid.
This specific type of notifications is a failsafe in order to save our users from un-necessary deletion/changes and cannot be disabled.As for your consequent inquiry, again this is not possible; to disable those notifications beforehand.
At this point, I'd like to thank you for your feedback - I will log this with the team as a feature request.I know this isn't what you wanted to hear but I hope it helps to some extent. Please let me know if you have anything to add or ask; I'll be happy to follow up!
Hi all,
I'm using the latest macOS Dropbox client on a Mac. Everything works well but there are a handful of recurring Dropbox alerts I find extremely annoying.
The worst among the bunch are Online-only-files-related alerts, which I'm plagued by thanks to my Dropbox Pro subscription; they raise their ugly head with every (online-only) file deletion, without an option to turn off any future incarnations of it.
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The following notification are less annoying since they can be turned off after their initial appearance, yet I've been wondering if there's a way to disable them in advance, before they pop for the first time? This would really streamline the deployment of many Dropbox clients I'm required to do occasionally.
Thanks!
Walter
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey there bigsky - how are you today?
I moved your post under this thread as your inquiry echoes the OP's query and to keep things neat around our Community.
I double checked this internally and when it comes to the Smart Sync notifications and the option to disable them, this not possible I'm afraid.
This specific type of notifications is a failsafe in order to save our users from un-necessary deletion/changes and cannot be disabled.
As for your consequent inquiry, again this is not possible; to disable those notifications beforehand.
At this point, I'd like to thank you for your feedback - I will log this with the team as a feature request.
I know this isn't what you wanted to hear but I hope it helps to some extent. Please let me know if you have anything to add or ask; I'll be happy to follow up!
Thanks. It would be great if opting-out of those alerts would be added in the future.
I get the rationale, from a high level, but the warning (the 'because it's online only it won't appear in your recycle bin' warning) is terribly annoying. There needs to be an option to disable it. I get it if you want to bury said option somewhere deep in the settings (or even make it available ONLY via a registry-tweak - so casual users don't switch it off without knowing what they're doing), but reasonably savvy users who understand the concept it's conveying should really be able to disable. In any event, it's not a 'failsafe' - either way, the files are in your dropbox online deleted folder and can easily be recovered from there. So all teh warning does is serve as a tipoff that that's where to find them. And when recognizing that's all it is - no reason this warning shouldn't be able to be disabled when the other similar warnings can be.
Sorry i feel so strongly about this, but i do. it is really making me reconsider using online only files, which would be a huge problem and could ultimately result in me looking at other services. It's that annoying. the nature of my work is such that i often am adding and deleting and moving things around even without downloading (i.e. - i will always get this warning routinely).
so pllllllease for the love of my sanity, let there be an option to disable this!!
I'd like to second the request to change this feature. It makes cleaning out my files incredibly cumbersome. Thank you
I'm still dealing with this too. It's extremely annoying and makes the Smar Sync feature almost worthless. Has a solution been determind?
Is this still the case? Has a fix been determined for this constant warning for EVERY file that is deleted?
are they working on a fix this makes the online only version of dropbox essentially unusable and it is quite useless for user with rewind account
- Daphne
Hey nicolas r.6, thanks for joining the discussion here!
Please check out my post above when you have the time and let me know if you have any questions.
Cheers!
i did it is just that your interface for proposing new features is so cumbersome !
to be honest I believe I have suggested it in the right place but I am not even sure it works and already spent enough time trying to do so for something that should be pretty obvious for any normal user.
I am quite frustrated by that especially being a loyal customer since more or less the beginning especially since your competitors seem much more seemless
I'd also like the option to turn off (or at least suspend this functionality). I want the option to quickly delete photos after reviewing them on my computer and I'm getting a prompt after I delete every file.
So, those of us who know the basics of using a computer are doomed to suffer this obnoxious, incessant, and unnecessary message because of a misguided need to idiot-proof dropbox?
I hate this repeated warning message and don't understand why Dropbox wants me to see this warning every time.
One way to suppress this warning is to use the 'shift delete' method. If you hold down the shift key and press the delete button or drag files to your Recycle Bin, the selected files will be deleted without the warning message. You WILL be able to recover the deleted files on the Dropbox.com website as usual.
Hope this helps.
- Hi, I didn't notice that this thread is for macOS. Thr Shift+Delete methods works in Windows, but I bet there is a similar option in macOS, to completely delete files without putting files into trash bin.
