Disable desktop notifications for app's folder

@Mads P. No, just right-click the Dropbox icon in your taskbar, then the gear icon, 'Preferences', and unselect 'Show desktop notifications'.

What I'm complaining about is that this disables ALL notifications, whereas I wanted to disable them only for a specific folder.

Hello @Mads P., @Érico C. expressed that exactly, there is however one thing I'd like to emphasise: When he talks about 'specific folder' it might sound the user can select which folders he wants to get notified about. That is a thinkable scenario too but the very first step should be that by default all notification are disabled for EVERYTHING that is under the APPS folder. APPS folder is not anything the user has actively created it is crated for him to serve for any of the applications he installed. For that reason the user does not expect any notifications (very probably he does not even know there is any apps subfolder at all). And for that reason user gets naturally annoyed by these unexpected notifications.

To say it shortly: The name of this thread is just perfect: "Disable desktop notifications for app's folder".

Best regards, Jan

Definitely upvoting this one....My wife and I use the "You Need a Budget" app and share the data file via dropbox. If one of us is working in it, the others dropbox goes CRAZY because of the incremental saves the application does, so for the next couple hours I get a pop up saying the same file is updated over and over and over again....

Selective notifications would be GREAT...

Same story with Moneydance for Android. It uses DropBox for sync.

That will sound like a programmer's suggestion (because it is): Something like creating a file in the sub-folder we want to personalize (.dropbox, or something similar) with some options like "no-notification" might also be interesting. Of course, having the GUI client generating it for us when we are users, but being able to create it automatically for our apps using DB as a sync solution.

Just my 2 cents! :)

Is there anyway this issue can get more attention? The OP is soon-to-be 1 year old and there's no sign of this apparently not so complex feature being implemented. I share a folder with dozens of other people that constantly save new and updated .docs, and the nonstop notifications drive me crazy. I DON'T want to disable the syncing to my PC. That would make having the desktop software installed no less than useless to me. Pretty please, folks, make it happen!

O.S., this forum is for developers using the Dropbox API to build their own apps. It sounds like you're looking for an end-user feature, so a different forum would be a better avenue for support.

As for the developer request above, Greg noted above that this was added to API v2 as the "mute" parameter on /files/upload and similar endpoints, though as I recall there are some limitations.

Thanks, Steve. I was searching Google for a solution and this was the only topic I found.

Any news on this? Seems a lot of people are looking to get this option.

Hi Steve M., I must admit this is one of the most frustrating threads I ever participated in. Please read the very original request from Thomas and if possible also the comments I posted throughout the last calendar year: This is all about the APPS folder - a folder you, DropBox, creates, on behalf of your final users, not them personally. What sense does it make to notify users about changes in the folder they never created? Isn't this absolutely obvious case? Independent on any API version, independent on API client requests or parameters sent... Simply NEVER notify about changes in the APPS folder and its subfolders! I guess this feature must be implemented in your Dropbox software - in your Windows and Mac clients as it is those clients who display those annoying notifications. There is hardly any other work-around. I am very sorry for using bold font and one or two exclamation marks but for the last 427 days of this ticket lifetime I do not sense any sincere interest from any 'Dropboxer' to address this issue. Maybe my view is too simplified but it is about one if statement in the related client code...

Thanks for the additional feedback Jan. We do read everything and sincerely appreciate the insight and the time taken to write it. Unfortunately, I don't have any news to offer on this request though.