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johnrinek
3 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Syncing icons on the files in the Dropbox folder have changed
Hello The Finder Extension Icons indicating whether a file or folder is Online Only or Available Offline are showing up in my Finder, however, the statuses are incorrect. For instance a folder that ...
FabrizioPan
Helpful | Level 6
Hello,
I find the new Icon Setup useless.
I suggest to bring it back as it was before the Update.
I think the most important thing is to be able to know if there's a SYNCHED LOCAL File in a Folder, that is eaten your Local HD Space.
So the Grey Icon was super useful before the Icons Update. It showed that there were no SYNCHED file in the Folder.
Now the Grey Icon shows me if there ìs at least one Online-only file in the folder, but olso if there anything else (Synched full green, or Half green file in the folder). It's Basically useless... because the important thing is to know if there's some file left that weight on Local HD.
The best solution was that GREY Icon tells me that there is NO LOCAL SYNCHED file in the folder, so I know that the files inside that folder is Only on CLOUD, since the most important thind is managind and knowing witha a glance if there's some Local file in a folder.
Now I dont know at first glance if I have some local file in every folders... i have to open all the folders and look inside. Thant's vary bad Update.
Is there any chance to make it back as it was the Synch system?
Thank you
arigoldfilms
3 years agoCollaborator | Level 10
Agreed. The new system is unbelievably useless and will force my company to move to another cloud client if dropbox can’t put it back how it was.
Who at Dropbox came up with this?
For synced files, we need to see
—Folders fully online only
—Folders mixed online/local
—Folders fully local
That’s how it was and it was very effective. the new system is just nuts and I cannot understand why they did this. Planning to move company elsewhere
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