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Alfredo P.3
Helpful | Level 6
4 months ago

Can I hide “file changed” popups for specific files?

Hi, I have some files (like logs) that I constantly write to from another PC. Every time they update, I get the “file changed” popups all the time. I’d like to hide these notifications for certai...
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Alfredo P.3's avatar
Alfredo P.3
Helpful | Level 6
4 months ago

The notifications are not constant. They stated to appear when I started keeping the "logs" in the dropbox dir. They pop up from time to time. The problem is not that they are annoying but that they are irrelevant.

 

Thank you.

 

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Nancy
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4 months ago

Thanks for the screenshot, Alfredo P.3! Can you perhaps clarify what you mean when saying that these notifications are irrelevant? 

Other than that, you can only enable or disable Dropbox app notifications via the desktop app preferences that Neal mentioned above.

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