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funkup
New member | Level 2
7 years ago
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How to disable Dropbox almost full notification?

I would like to have the CHOICE to disable the "Dropbox Almost Full" notification.   As a temporary solution, I have chose to not start Dropbox on system boot and close it, but I would like to kn...
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  • Lusil's avatar
    Lusil
    7 years ago
    Hi there funkup!
     
    Sounds like you’re receiving a notification about your Dropbox account running out of space. You can check how much space you’ve got left by navigating to your Plan tab on your Settings. 
     
    Although this notification cannot be disabled, it will not appear once your Dropbox account isn’t close to or over its storage limit. To do this, you can either make space by removing unwanted content (including shared folder and files) or earn free space. 
     
    I hope this helped. Let me know if you have any more questions!
  • David_Keating's avatar
    David_Keating
    7 years ago

    SOLUTION:

     

    In windows 10 after the annoying notification, click on the speach bubble icon on the lower right of your screen, this brings up the notifictaion/ action area, right click on the dropbox notification above then " Disable notifications for this group."

     

    That should stop you being pestered.

     

    -dk

Ed B.8's avatar
Ed B.8
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago

Windows 10 can now disable all notifications for an app. 

From the sidebar -

  - right click a notification from the app

  - choose 'Turn off notifications for App X'

 

  • Rik W.1's avatar
    Rik W.1
    Helpful | Level 6
    6 years ago
    Ed B.8, wauw! Thanks! I haven't read that solution in any of the other posts in this thread!
    I just wonder how this solves the question. This turns off all notifications, instead of only the almost full notification.
  • Barbari0n's avatar
    Barbari0n
    Explorer | Level 4
    6 years ago

    Oddly enought, in windows 7 at least, turning off notifications doesn't even stop this popup.  Dropbox ignores the settings and goes right on it's way popping the space warning.  I'm so near done with this service, going to try a 3rd party option like mentioned above first though.

    • Lusil's avatar
      Lusil
      Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
      6 years ago

      Hey there Barbari0n,

      I just wanted to clarify that currently you can disable notifications in Windows 10 from the OS's Notifications settings, but not fully in Windows 7.

      Nonetheless, I understand how important this is, and I'd be more than happy to pass your comments along to the team for future review - Thanks!

      • mflmn's avatar
        mflmn
        New member | Level 2
        6 years ago

        @Lusil

        This remains a really annoying "feature" of the dropbox app for more than a year now it seems.  It's even worse for me as I still have nearly an entire gigabyte of free space and am still receiving this notification at least daily and apparently the only way to fix this is by taking away all my dropbox notifications.

         

        Very frustrating.

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