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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
Please bring it back!
Is it just me, or is there no option to VOTE? Seems to me this thread type changed from "Dropbox-ideas" to "Ask the community" where there is no VOTE option. I remember voting for this change earlier, now I came back to copy the link and share it with my colleagues but it's different.
Link people post so others would go and vote:
Link I get redirected to:
Mantas212 Yeah, it looks like they redirected the Idea page to the Community post. Not sure what that means.
DropBox really needs to put out a statement explaining why this icon change was done and what they can do to remedy it.
For what it's worth the DropBox CEO is on Twitter - Drew Houston @drewhouston. Maybe if enough people complain directly to him he'll get the picture.
As posted earlier in one of these forums, I'm in the process of moving my content off dropbox before my dropbox subscription renews next month. (A very slow process, but I'm switching to sync and it seems to work ok, altho it has its own quirks. But it runs better in a lot of ways.)
In the process, I've discovered that dropbox seems to have changed how the icons are working. At least, my version is now behaving differently yet again.
Now folders have a green check for synced and available locally, a cloud for all files in the cloud, and NOTHING for folders with a mix of cloud and local files. It's a bit confusing, because my first thought is "hasn't that folder synced yet?" Has anyone else seen this?
(It makes me certain that no one in charge at dropbox is actually a heavy user of their program!)
