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Syncing icons on the files in the Dropbox folder have changed
Hello The Finder Extension Icons indicating whether a file or folder is Online Only or Available Offline are showing up in my Finder, however, the statuses are incorrect. For instance a folder that ...
Hello,
I find the new Icon Setup useless.
I suggest to bring it back as it was before the Update.
I think the most important thing is to be able to know if there's a SYNCHED LOCAL File in a Folder, that is eaten your Local HD Space.
So the Grey Icon was super useful before the Icons Update. It showed that there were no SYNCHED file in the Folder.
Now the Grey Icon shows me if there ìs at least one Online-only file in the folder, but olso if there anything else (Synched full green, or Half green file in the folder). It's Basically useless... because the important thing is to know if there's some file left that weight on Local HD.
The best solution was that GREY Icon tells me that there is NO LOCAL SYNCHED file in the folder, so I know that the files inside that folder is Only on CLOUD, since the most important thind is managind and knowing witha a glance if there's some Local file in a folder.
Now I dont know at first glance if I have some local file in every folders... i have to open all the folders and look inside. Thant's vary bad Update.
Is there any chance to make it back as it was the Synch system?
Thank you
Dropbox recently changed (aka ruined) the usability of its formerly-useful Smart Sync finder icons.
CLOUD ICON - this icon used to show up when a folder was 100% online-only. Very useful - you could see that a folder was there, and not eating up local drive space. But now it means only that "any little part" of a folder is online-only. This ruins its usefulness, because if I’m trying to clear up hard-drive space, I can’t tell which Cloud folders are the “offending” ones that may secretly possess a gigantic file, deep inside a folder, that is eating up tons of local drive space. With this Dropbox icon change, the only way to make sure you are freeing up hard drive space is to constantly throw your *entire* Dropbox into online-only mode. It makes the whole system kind of useless.
WHITE WITH GREEN CHECK ICON - the white-styled green check icon used to represent folders that were a mixture of online-only and locally-downloaded. This was useful, because you could quickly see folders that might contain downloaded files, and navigate to downloaded or cloud-only files. But the new version of the white/green icon only tells me if an App has opened a file, instead of me choosing to download it. Basically a waste, not useful, and confusing as it functionally double-up with the fully-green checkmark icon described below.
DARK GREEN CHECK ICON - this dark green icon remains effective because it's clear: it means a file or folder is in the cloud AND is also fully downloaded to your computer.
If people want more icon options, Dropbox should make more icons. But to kill off the effective old icons and re-define them in a useless way is bad for businesses that manage a lot of media. It will force my business to move to another cloud service if it's not fixed.
