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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 ...
arigoldfilms It's a little more complicated than that for sync.com, but yes, those are the icons they have and it is really clear where your folders are. Right now you can only sync at the folder level, but they are beta testing file level syncing. They suggested I try it, but right now I've been focused on getting things off Dropbox and available on Sync. (So I don't have to renew my Dropbox account next month.) I do plan to try the beta version later.
I've been pretty happy with Sync so far. It's reasonably fast, I know exactly where everything is, and I can change the status of two or three folders without having ALL the folders change accordingly. (That's been a real problem with Dropbox even before the icon issue showed up.) If you work from the web platform, it's super easy to move things around. Easier I than Dropbox. The real limitation is that you can only sync files, not individual folders. But they won't decide for you that you don't have enough space on your hard drive and start moving things to the cloud without your doing so yourself!! It's a lot easier to control and manage than Dropbox.
One other benefit of Sync for Windows users -- you can open all your files right in Windows. (Password protected files didn't open in Dropbox.)
Rua I'm really confused how this thread got marked as "solved," when clearly the issue is not solved.
Thank you for taking the time to give the response that you did. It is great to have a dropboxer in here willing to dialogue. However, your response did not "solve" this issue. Instead it explained what we all unfortunately already know. Please remove the "solved" status from this thread.
Until something is done to address the selective sync icons having been changed, the issue we are all having is most certainly not solved.
But the true "solve" is simple. We need either one of the following simple fixes:
- 1) The old selective sync icon system back, or
- 2) Simply add 1 more icon to denote if a folder contains a mixture of "online only" and "offline" files.
This whole issue revolves around users no longer knowing if a folder contains a mix of "online only" and "offline" files. That's it. The new selective sync icon system makes Dropbox impossibly hard to use and is literally and utterly debilitating to daily work.
