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Some people deal with confidential files and use Dropbox for these. It would be very useful to allow people the option to clear their "Recent" files at will to allow more privacy and discretion.
I'm not really sure why Dropbox is directing me to reply to this message. Do they count traffic on the subject to decide what they want to mark important?
At this time, when I am working almost exclusivly from home, I do not want Dropbox snooping through my most recent files. For other apps that do, do this, there is a clear button. If Microsoft can protect ones privacy in this manner, surely the Dropbox people can.
I'm here again. That "recently used files" feature (to name it positively) was added at some point in time and for a reason, which seems to be gathering usage information maybe to feed their behaviour models. Now, in order to keep our privacy, we need to get more people involved; more votes; more time spent. My questions for Daphne are "how many more users do you need?", "Are you (Dropbox) expecting 1 million, 1 thousand, 1 hundred or tens of entries in this thread?". Adding a configuration toggle to select if we want to see recent entries or not, it's so easy and simple that the fact you "need more people" is an evident excuse to avoid taking immediate action.
Yeah! My cousin asked me to adhere to this cause. You dropbox are against our privacy when you potentially let everybody know about the files we used. Please remove that feature.
It's difficult to explain how angry I feel when I open my laptop at customer site and let all the neighbourhood know about my projects and other customer, as I tend to use descriptive file names ... I guess as almost everybody. I have started looking for some other solutions and also have stopped recommending dropbox.
This is my grain of sand in order to achieve the critical mass that Dropbox require in order to remove the bad things they added. Dropbox: please respect us, the users. Remove history or hide it.
From all what I read I understand that Dropbox is another information collector. They act as Whatsapp, Facebook (now the owner :-)), Google, to name some. Please stop this attack and stay apart from those that sell "cheap" environments at the price of collecting private and confidential information.
It's so, so much better on mobile where you can assign a passcode or in the case of the iPhone, fingerprint security, to even Open the Dropbox App. So, they obviously think that someone being able to access a user's files without their permission is an important security risk.
Why would they just blatantly display your recent or most commonly used files on a desktop or latptop computer, where you can't even put a passcode on Dropbox, and give you no option to disable it? Basically, if I get up from my comptuer without locking it out, and someone happens by and opens up Dropbox, they can see what files I've been working on; often sensitive information. Windows has the ability to turn off tracking recent files/folders, so does almost every other program.
If you're going to include the recent or common files/folders feature without a way to turn it off, you need to add the ability to require a passcode to access Dropbox just like on mobile.
Sharki, I agree but, for me, the issue goes beyond access and pass codes. Again for me, the fact that I open my Dropbox account from my laptop during a meeting at customer site, gives third-party people a chance to see what have I been dealing with. For example, Customer X may not care about others' documents (say Customer Y), but they will know that those other companies might see theirs in any other meeting.
Dropbox's developers must give us the option to remove or hide recent files from our dashboards.
It's truly amazing that this hasn't been implemented yet. This is such a basic toggle feature that it could be implemented in a day.
I can only think that Dropbox staff are being very dense about this. This feature has been recommended over and over and over again since at least 2015. All you have to do is search for "recents" or "hide" and then take a moment to look through: what's happening is that for over five years now, with frustration mounting to righteous rage, many many users have asked for you to introduce a "clear" function, or the ability to disable the "recents" function. People introduce it as if it were a new thread, so you "only" see 25 votes in this particular thread. But are you checking to see how many threads have been started on this same topic? Have you noticed the extremity of people's feelings about having their confidential files no further from everyone's eyes than the enticing "unhide" button on the first page?
Instead of waiting for 10,000 people to SCREAM about this or quit Dropbox, why not just think for a moment? In professional presentations, I frequently need to bring up material from my Dropbox. But it's not safe to do that without a ridiculous workaround: I must always DISABLE the projector until I have safely gotten past that accursed "Recents" display and into the folders from which I want to show this or that document.
The final absurdity came today, when I implemented your "Vault" feature, a long overdue feature. Unfortunately, since it creates a file called "VAULT" in the top menu, when I project from my computer everyone's attention will go to the fact that I have "something to hide." Isn't Dropbox trying to accommodate genuine working professionals at all? But it gets worse. After sealing the vault, I clicked back to the home screen, and lo and behold, a whole list of supposedly locked files are STILL listed one by one, with titles on display, in the "Recents" list. What's the point of a vault made of glass when the point is for people not even to see that you have protected documents? The Dropbox team really did not have their thinking caps all the way on, and again, at least since 2015 this request has come to you under a dozen headings. How hard could it be? Sheesh.
