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I am getting a regular "Your Dropbox is full" pop-up - but I have plenty of space.
This 'appears' to have become a problem since I've added a Work dropbox - though that meay be a red herring.
I get the message despite my personal dropbox only showing 6.6GB of 8.88GB used and my work dropbox showing 300.7MB of 2GB used.
You'd have to ask Support.
So... drop box has taken to spamming Win7 users with a pop up ad that steals focus from other windows, sitting on top of whatever the user is actually trying to work on, and left no way to opt out? Right then, time to delete drop box, it's outlived it's usefulness...
And do I really need to say how wrong "That notification cannot be disabled" is from a design perspective? So dropbox feels they can control the behavior of my machine? Not control their own app on my machine, but control the way OTHER apps dispaly on my machine, but covering them with a [profanity removed] ad?
Any other program that did this would be called malicious... A virus. But dropbox thinks it's a-ok to do?
And yes, I asked this of support. My first ticket they sent an automated response that had nothing to do with the question and closed the ticket. My follwup they sent a set of procedures that reference clicking on options that don't actually exist in their own preference screen. I responded to that with screen shots asking them to clarify, but 6 days in now with no simple answer means I'm not holding my breath.
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TwoOrMoreChars wrote:
So dropbox feels they can control the behavior of my machine?
They're not controlling your computer's behavior. They're controlling their own application. It's the application that is presenting the window, not your operating system. It's simply coming to the forground, just like so many other applications when they present a dialog while the application is not in focus. It's nothing new, and certainly not malicious.
If anyone has a problem with how a dialog is presented in a program, then they should blame Microsoft/Apple for allowing applications to take focus when out of focus.
Are you clueless why someone doesn't want repetitive pop up notifications every time they turn on their computer? Seems pretty straightforward to me.
Don't just say, "why?"
Dropbox support finally did answer me and Rich is correct - there is no way to disable this notification. So instead I disabled dropbox. Problem solved!
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