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wowtah's avatar
wowtah
Helpful | Level 6
9 years ago

Bring back the green 'synced' checkmark in the system tray.

In my Windows system tray (next to the clock), Dropbox used to show that it was fully synced by showing a green check-mark over the Dropbox icon. This was really helpfull.  If Dropbox was offline, ...
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stevelerner's avatar
stevelerner
Explorer | Level 4
9 years ago

Hi Adam,

Thanks for the helpful response.  As you might imagine given the popularity of this posting, there are many of your customers who are unhappy with this change.  This is not surprising since, in real sense, there has been a removal of functional information in the Windows environment.  Something that imparted information is no longer available.  In fact, if you take as a given that you’ll never actually know if your data is synched to the local machine because SmartSync makes it difficult to tell, that means Windows users have no hope of ever actually knowing their data is 100% synched to their LOCAL machine.  That’s a non-starter for some of us who go places with no WiFi and who can’t get access to the cloud… so, I expect you will lose customers to Google Drive and others.  Please note that I’m a $750 per year business account with the id: WHDG LLC.

Many thanks,

Steve Lerner

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