You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Change Icons for folders in Windows
First, I would like to thank the Dropbox development team for addressing the issue with not being able to use my own desktop icons in Windows for Dropbox folders. That was accomplished a couple years ago. I wouldn't have kept my Dropbox account otherwise. That is very important to me and apparently to many subscribers. So, I am back on the same topic. I can change the icon for any folder except a shared folder, for which there is only the standard icon provided by Dropbox. If you have many shared folders, you have many icons that are the same. So, how about allowing a user to change the icon of a shared folder? I spent a least a couple of hours on trying to find out how. But nothing works. When I change it in Windows customize folder option, it never takes for a shared folder. Now, why is that? I think it's time for the Dropbox develooment team to step up, like they have before and solve another simple problem. We know you can do it. We are cheering you on! Thanks for listening to your community of users!
Enable Custom Icons for folders in the Dropbox folder on a desktop machine
I have been trying to customize the icons in my DropBox repository. This works partly, but erratically and mostly is overwritten by DropBox default icons. I would suggest that you set the desired icons locally in Dropbox and then save them as a setting online, so they will be reapplied when Dropbox synchronizes from the cloud. Apparently restoring the Dropbox icons is not consequent, as sometimes a custom icon survives through synchronizing... In the image, the Nedcom Logo survived between Synchronizations, but last time, it too was restored to a folder icon, while then the Camera-uploads icon was left intact.
Windows 10 use a column in File Explorer (file property) for icons instead of overlay
Dropbox uses icon file overlay to show file sync status in File Explorer in Windows 10. Windows has a limit of just 15 overlay icons and different applications pushother appliations out of the top 15 slots - this is often why some Windows users have missing overlay. OneDrive has moved to using a separate column in File Explorer as shown in the following example. This also means you can order by status. It would be great if Dropbox could adopt a similar solution. Thanks! Skov
