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LoveMyslf's avatar
LoveMyslf
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago
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Please reinstall Dropbox to fix all your syncing icons!

This has been an issue for a while now. It's an issue on both my Windows 10 devices. I have tried different solutions from this forum, without luck. I'm running version 50.4.71, from the offline inst...
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  • karnerkreativ's avatar
    karnerkreativ
    8 years ago

    Hey, I'm good now! The problem was the ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers as you describe it here: https://help.dropbox.com/syncing-uploads/icon-overlays-not-appearing
    I hadn't seen the "dropdown" for Windows when I was first reading that page. Windows must have updated something or whatever Dropbox ended up on rank 16 ...
    That's really annoying digging around in the registry. :(
    Anyway, they are back.

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nguenthanh
New member | Level 2
7 years ago

The same issue, anh it haven't fix at right now.

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Jane
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7 years ago
Hey nguenthanh, have you by any chance had a chance to review the resource karnerkreativ had posted us in the previous page here that did the trick for him? 
 
If you haven’t been able to resolve the issue at hand after following this set of steps, would you mind pinging me back here? Kindly note that it would be best to work on that through our Official Support channel after this point, so I’d appreciate any update on your end. Thanks in advance! 

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