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Let users remove Dropbox from the Windows Explorer navigation pane
Dropbox continues to force a navigation pane icon into Windows Explorer without providing any user-facing option to disable or reposition it. Even after I remove it from the registry, Dropbox re-inserts it on every update or restart. This is an unacceptable override of user system preferences and violates UI conventions by prioritizing your brand icon above system drives. I demand an official method to disable or reposition this icon permanently, or at least an acknowledgment that users should retain control over their own file browser UI. I request that this be forwarded to your product design and engineering teams. Please provide a timeline for addressing this issue. If not, I will have no choice but to publicly document and discourage use of Dropbox on this basis. You are so arrogant and thin-skinned! Arrogant because you think your application is certainly more important than anything the user has or wants. Thin-skinned because you cannot take any criticism. I dare you to leave this up.I'm confused with the available and available offline status of my Windows files/folders.
My Dropbox for Windows app is currently updating. The sync settings seem to have changed to be more compatible with Windows, I take it. It's still currently indexing, but anyway. I notice that instead of the green circle for an offline file, and the green check in a white circle for a folder that's partly online and partly off, the green check in the white circle now seems to mean "Available on this device" whereas the green circle means "Always available on this device." I don't see any option to change the "available" files to "always available." Frankly I don't understand why there's a difference...? For files that aren't a folder, if I manually make them online only and then offline again, it seems to resolve the issue and make them always available, but this isn't working with a folder. The folder has four files in it, all always available offline. So how come the folder has the white circle with the green checkmark...? Shouldn't it be solid green? Everything's still syncing so I don't know if this issue will persist with other folders I've had marked as offline, too. :/ I read the details given here but this just makes it even more confusing and doesn't help the issue. https://help.dropbox.com/sync/sync-iconsMy Dropbox desktop app was updated on my Windows device. Now I can't tell if my content is synced.
OK, so the day I dreaded seems to have finally come. Dropbox rolled out its "new appearance model" to production, bringing the end of the era of status icons overlaid on program icons and, instead, in their own neat little column carved out for themselves. Yes, my Dropbox updated today to version 227.4.4774. 🙄🙄 So, in the process, it apparently had to "re-sync" my files, which took some time. It gave me the whole "you can have your files "Offline," "Available," or "Online Only." I always opt for "Offline." While I love Dropbox, I do not fully trust my files to be resident on your servers and not on my own drive. I just want it for sync. If I want more room, I'll upgrade my hard drive. Anyway, I let Dropbox finish up its little sync party, and I came back to see what you see in the screen capture shown at the following link: (For some reason, this forum wouldn't let me submit my post by using the "Insert Link" option in the editor, which is weird...your developers might want to look into that, too.) The tray icon seemed to indicate that the "sync" was complete, and that my files were "up-to-date." That doesn't appear to be the story my new-found little "column status icons" tell. Some of those indicate that a "sync" is "pending." I gave it some time, I restarted my computer to make sure that any hiccups or belches might otherwise be resolved through that. No dice. It's still showing the same thing. So now I'm confused. Are they synced, or are they not synced? If they're synced, why does it show "sync pending"? If they're not synced, why does the tray icon indicate that my files are "up-to-date"? Help a brother out. I feared this would be a mess.
I can't save an Adobe PDF file with Windows File Explorer open
I can't save an edited PDF with the Windows file explorer open. I thought it was because another user had the file open, but then I discovered that I can save the file if I close the file explorer first, which doesn't make sense. I get an Adobe Acrobat message stating, "The document could not be saved. The file may be read-only, or another user may have it open. Please save the document with a different name or in a different folder." I removed all other devices from the Dropbox account and that did the trick for a little while, but now I'm getting this message again any time I edit a PDF and try to save it where it is. I close the window, hit save, and locate the file again. How can I fix this so I don't have to close the file explorer every time I edit a document in Dropbox on desktop?Recent update of the desktop app not allowing me to see .clip thumbnails in File Explorer.
I use clip studio paint for work and I need to be able to see the thumbnails for the files to navigate them quickly. By default windows allows me to do this and it has been that way for years, as well as when looking at them in the file explorer for the program. Some big update went out for Dropbox recently, and how SPECIFICALLY in the dropbox folders I can no longer see my thumbnails. They are not online-only. I have triple checked. They are simply not showing. When I paste them onto my desktop, lo and behold they show again. This is entirely on the fault of the recent Dropbox update and I don't know how to fix it. It has disrupted my workflow and has be looking into new backup options when I've been using Dropbox for almost 15 years. Can someone please help?
Dropbox 226.4.5094 offline binary has superfluous in the filename
Hi Team, We are 3rd party patch provider like PatchMyPC or ManageEngine. We are providing similar services to our customers. We are willing to add latest "Dropbox" release to our catalogue and need help on below queries. The latest version of Dropbox 226.4.5094 offline installer has superfluous added in the name. Is this a stable version? Will the name for Windows 10 or later offline installers have superfluous in its name in future releases? Thanks & Regards, Metadata, Adaptiva.
Offline folders switching to online-only after Dropbox for Windows update
After updating to 227.4.4774 on Windows 11 (update to Windows API style) my entire folder started to index/upload/download. Most icons have been stuck in sync for about 5 hours and opening files is triggering downloads even though this whole folder was previously offline. I have set the default sync state to Available Offline and right clicked most folders to set them to "Available Offline." But even when root folders is set to Available Offline the subfolders are still being set to Cloud. Internet speed test says about 900Mb up and down. Root folder: Subfolders:I can't access my Dropbox files on an NTFS drive from Linux after the latest update.
My files are arranged like this: Drive 1: Windows Drive 2: Linux Drive 3 (NTFS): Dropbox files After the latest Dropbox updated itself to the latest version on Windows, the Dropbox folder is now apparently a link instead. Is there a setting where I can revert this back to a normal folder?
