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wowtah's avatar
wowtah
Helpful | Level 6
8 years ago

Bring back the green 'synced' checkmark in the system tray.

In my Windows system tray (next to the clock), Dropbox used to show that it was fully synced by showing a green check-mark over the Dropbox icon. This was really helpfull.  If Dropbox was offline, ...
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Madpentiste
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago
Here is a workaround for those with linux/ubuntu (might be transferrable to MacOS and Windows) : (1) find the icon files in a folder that should be named /home/[username]/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-37.4.29[<--- or your distribution and version of dropbox]/images/hicolor/16x16/status ; (2) modify at your convenience, with a picture editor, the file named dropboxstatus-idle.png -- for example, put a green color on it, or anything you would like in order to mean "synced" -- as usual, make a copy of the original file before any modification, so that things stay reversible ; (3) stop and restart dropbox : the modified icon should appear when the synced is finished.

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