Shut down computer once dropbox has finished syncing

I know what you mean by featuritis.

Often I've wanted this feature, though. I figured it could be optional - "shut down computer when finished this sync".
I don't like to leave my computer on all night or on the weekend.

It would also be quite useful to have a little notification pop up when you are shutting down that Dropbox is still syncing.
So often I have got home and realised the file I need hasn't uploaded because I shut down my Work computer in such haste.

I think James suggestion is an excellent one.

So do I. I work on 500MB-2GB project files and sometimes need them to synch before I shut down or suspend the computer. It would be very useful to me to for example have a little checkbox item to shut down or suspend the computer when finished synching perhaps below the Pause synching item in the gear-dropdown menu.

I believe you could change the tray icon to indicate it has been activated and/or display some on-top, floating reminder when activated with a Cancel button. Either from when activated or when finished synching and counting down to shut-down command?

I'm sure users who wouldn't need the feature wouldn't need to produce any mishaps by mistakenly activating such a feature any more than they would mistakenly pause synching.

This would be a fitting pro feature since when synching before going from your home studio to commute to an other work place or office you would often want to work up until getting out the door and have dropbox shut the computer down when finished synching and not have to wait when using desktop computers or leave-at-home laptops.

Now I'm uploading about 30 GB of file with 100 KB/sec. It will take about 5 days to finish sync. I wish I have optional shutdown option when sync is finnised. My desktop computer now has to be on to the office and unfortunately I install teamviewer software to check from remote and shut it down. 

Whats wrong if you add optional shutdown computer feature?

I can't help but read Deep's responses a little condescending and rude.  Even if you disagree with him you can go about it a little differently and if you truly believe that Dropbox is suppose to work with you then you would agree with James F. in all honesty.  To me just having an auto shutoff OPTION would be amazing.  How is that an inconvenience in any way Deep?  It's actually more time saving and energy efficient.  I'm uploading 35GB of 4K footage as I type this and the syncing is going to take 8 hours.  I have other things to do with my life rather than sit here waiting for this to complete and I don't want to leave my computer on more than I have to if I decide to leave my work desk.  No one is talking about notifications and other random things.  We all like Dropbox the way it is but nothing is perfect and there is room for improvement for this service.

Deep M.

How about this: Turning shutdown-when-done on will lock down the entire computer, hog all the HID input and provide a dimming of the entire desktop with a notice in the middle saying "Waiting to shut down when syncing is done..." and the only 2 options then is to wait and let the computer be or hit Cancel and cancel this schedule and retake control?

This way even a first time computer user would understand what is going on and no mistakes are even remotely likely to happen.

The only mistake that could be made would be to hit Cancel cause it could easily be the only interactable GUI-item on screen at this point while providing all the functionality we're asking for.

Doesn't this sound safe enough? :-)

I have no doubt you understand exactly what I'm describing but for those that don't you could try the "Turn Off The Lights" extension for Chrome (usually used for Youtube) to get the idea.

This idea would give you less interactability yet. Only wait or hit Cancel.

Also regarding other scheduled tasks by Windows Update or by applications, Could not Dropbox check to see if a Windows Update is scheduled and not allow you to turn shutdown-after-sync on if you don't manually disable such readable scheduled stuff?

Peace!

I found this forum too looking for a feature to turn off my pc after I finish a nightlong dropbox synch. I'm uploading about 45gb worth of stuff and want to sleep. I also want this to turn off when it's done but not before. I don't like to leave my computer on as the baby sees the led indicator and starts pressing buttons. Also other obvious reasons....

I would love this feature. I often start some photo export, has to guess how many time it will take, and schedule a shutdown of the computer after this time.

A real case solution would be;

• no automatic "shutdown once synced" option in preference. This has no sense.
• So only one-shot, "man-triggered" feature
• In the dropbox contextual menu, add an item "shutdown computer once synced" (could also be "hibernate on synced")
• on completion, warn the user about a shutdown in 60 sec with a message ballon
• if no user interaction, perform the action (shutdown/hibernate/...)

I want to revive this. I use DB for a lot of large media files. Right now I need to leave and have 1 hour before the Client's Upload is complete. I won't be back for 24 hours, and don't need my machine on after the sync completes. My antiviris provides a 'shutdown when complete if nothing detected' feature -- why can't DropBox?

I was looking for this feature.. and just found out that it's not available YET. Please update this! This'd be so useful. I totally agree that it can be little like a check box option available somewhere in the options. I sometimes need to leave my house and still have tons of files to sync, which can take up to 3-5 hrs. But I don't want my computer to be on till I come back.