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StopMessingWithOverlayIcons
6 years agoHelpful | Level 7
Add option to disable icon overlays in Windows Explorer
Please add an option to disable Dropbox icon overlays. It is so frustrating to remove Dropbox Shell Icon identifiers from the top of ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers list after each update! It is disres...
mrudin
4 years agoNew member | Level 2
Walter, the ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers issue is continually annoying to me and other developers who need to prioritise use of overlays.
I've added a 'like' to StopMessingWithOverlayIcons's post - is that where we should be voting?
All the permanent 'accepted solutions' to this so far have involved abandoning Dropbox, and using OneDrive or similar instead.
Mike
bcgirton
4 years agoHelpful | Level 6
The Dropbox leadership needs quit fending off the multitude of small user complaints. You are a subsidiary and a niche service provider, not a tech giant squatting on an operating system with bundled services. The giants are like gravity; everyone does business with them, but they want to know everything about their customers in return. You do not have the ability to compete with them in terms of the breadth of applications and depth of integration they can offer. As it stands, the only reason anyone would rationally choose Dropbox (or any independent cloud storage provider) over the cloud storage solutions built into every laptop and phone is better privacy; the unenforceable, incomprehensible legal assurances that each giant uses to paper over the ugly reality of their business are not enough for some of us. However, if Dropbox wishes to continue to be relevant, they are going to have to do more listening to the little gripes and wants, and engaging. I believe it should be possible to do this and still make a buck for the bean counters to count, but you are going to have to engage better than the giants do, or I predict you will no longer be relevant a decade from now. We don't need another take-it-or-leave it service bleeding our bank accounts.
- johne534 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Well said, bcgirton - this must surely be one of the most voted-for features here and yet the powers that be have UTTERLY refused to take any notice.
And yet I'm forever getting emails from Dropbox asking why I don't use their service any more (I received another one just a few minutes ago...)
Let me say it plainly... for those of us affected by this problem IT MAKES DROPBOX TOTALLY UNUSABLE!! So if you want people to come back to Dropbox - FIX THE PROBLEMS!!!!
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