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Alfred01's avatar
Alfred01
Helpful | Level 6
9 months ago
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How can I disable the status column on Windows?

Dear Madam/Sir, I have a paid subscription of Dropbox and as a professional writer I use mainly Explorer and Microsoft Office with hundreds of different files and documents. I am orientated to the ...
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  • vladgasan's avatar
    vladgasan
    9 months ago

    Hi Alfred01,

    Thanks for reaching out! The Status column is now managed by Windows as part of recent changes to file sync behavior, hence, Dropbox cannot disable it. If you'd like to learn more about these updates and how they affect Dropbox, check out this article: Expected changes with Dropbox for Windows update. 

    Let us know if you have any other questions!

     

Alain Church's avatar
Alain Church
Collaborator | Level 8
4 months ago

Wrong!

You can choose for .. ONLY this session and ONLY this Explorer window

Note: I've never worked in magnified "full screen" mode for any program on my screen, so I have multiple Explore windows open while I'm working on Folders or Files.

Close Explorer, restart it  and that "sheet" is again taking precious Real Estate on your screen.

Reboot and you have them back <right in the middle> in all Explore windows you left open, even if you pushed it at the end ... in all of them!!!!!



( no way to avoid MS so far ! )

Boxjay's avatar
Boxjay
Helpful | Level 5
4 months ago

Alain, it is INCREDIBLY frustrating to have this stupid status icon in explorer that we don't have the ability to turn off.  And what's even more frustrating is answers on here acting as if it has nothing to do with dropbox and IT DEFINITELY has EVERYTHING TO DO WITH DROPBOX AND the choices they made.  As I said above:

Dropbox made a deliberate architectural shift: they abandoned their custom sync icon overlays (the green checkmarks, blue sync arrows, etc.) and instead adopted Microsoft’s Cloud Files API to handle sync status. That API is part of Windows' native cloud integration framework, and it injects the “Status” column directly into File Explorer for any folder using Files On Demand.  

Therefore, it IS Dropbox's fault for this stupid addition that no user that actually uses the product wanted.

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