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Disable/Enable Notifications for Certain Folders

Disable/Enable Notifications for Certain Folders

Austin B.5
New member | Level 1

Is there any way to disable file update notifications for certain folders? I have a few applications syncing data to Dropbox and they generate a lot of notification noise on my desktop clients. I still want these folders synced on my desktop PCs, but I don't want to receive file update notifications for them. Is this possible?

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Walter
Dropbox Staff
This idea has been closed as it has reached the end of the Share an Idea process.
 
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Status changed to: Closed
52 Comments
Walter
Dropbox Staff

Hi All; thanks for sharing your thoughts on this!

 

While there is a way to mute notifications for specific folders if you're utilizing our APIs to do this programmatically (by using the mute parameter), there's no such option to do this on the desktop client's side where you can either snooze notifications or disable them completely. 

 

That said, note that this idea is now open. 
 
If you like this idea, please share how this would help you, and vote to show your support. 
 
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See you around the Community! 

Status changed to: Gathering Support
Cj11
Explorer | Level 3

Hi DropBox,

 

Is there a way for other people (who can access my folder via a link) to receive an email notification when I upload a file? If not, this would be an excellent feature to add!  Its a feature that exists on YouTube.  Thanks for your help!

JOfE
Experienced | Level 11

I agree. I was surprised it was not already a feature. Folder specific notifications.

XLu
New member | Level 2

It would be helpful if I can turn off the sync notification for some of my shared folders but not all of them. 

banepa
New member | Level 2

@Walter how many votes would this need to get passed on to engineering?

Sarah L
New member | Level 2

I have just installed a new app. It syncs to Dropbox, yay. I am now getting notifications every 5 minutes when it syncs. No longer yay. It has been bearable on other apps where that only happened as they were used, and I don't want to disable change notifications altogether, but this is too much. Would really like to disable notifications for this one folder. 

trymg
New member | Level 2

+1 for this feature

 

Emma
Community Manager

Hi everyone,

 

Thanks for sharing and supporting this idea. 

 

There are a lot of use cases for this idea here, so I wanted to share the Follow Folder feature which could help some of you!

 

Let us know 😊

Status changed to: Investigating
Joe C.56
Helpful | Level 7

@Emma I'm not following my own folders though, so I can't unfollow them. We just need a way to mute certain folders.

bob2231
New member | Level 2

+1 for this feature, for all the reasons mentioned above.

The Follow folder feature sends emails instead of simple desktop notifications, so not really a fix.

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92 votes received Status: Closed