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

Thank you Adam for taking the time to reply with the team's reasoning.

I respectfully disagree and request the icon be returned to its previous functionality - or at the very least an option for the user to choose to return it to previous functionality.  I agree with wanting consistency across platforms - so make this option on all platforms.

Like so many others here, I use the system tray icon as a quick glance to ensure that everything I want synchronised is - even with Smart Sync, this is relevant - the files/folders I have requested be synchronised are fully sync'd or are in progress OR if there is a problem, I have a clear visual notification to prompt me to go do something about it.

-- Brett

Adam,

Thank you for the explanation. However, I too, just as the other responders, disagree with the decision.

Instead of changing the meaning of the long standing well known green tick icon from ' synced' to 'Smart-sync' I think a better solution would be to choose a new icon for the new functionality 'Smart sync'. I won't use smart sync, don't want my stuff cloud-only. I am a long standing paying customer.

It is a nuisance to have to mouse over the icon each time to see if all is synced.

On my other computer (laptop) it is even worse. There a golden spade (?) icon has come instead of the green tick mark. It's there all the time. It looks to me identical when the machine is still syncing or if it is up to date. Only hover tells me the real status. Really a serious deterioration of functionality.

Paul

Dropbox Bring Back The Tick Song

I wrote the below song.  But I'm not musical. Maybe someone could make a real song of it on YouTube? If this would be shared a lot this might put pressure on the Dropbox team to reconsider their policy. Feel free to adapt anything in the text. I hope someone picks up the ball!

[Refrain]

Hey Dropbox!

Are you done or are you dead?

Is it good or is it bad?

Can't see it no more by your face,

need to touch you, what disgrace!

The green tick meant all is fine,

all my files are safe online

Now I'm caught in doubt

Am I in or am I out?

The green tick was so clear

Now I'm left in syncing fear

Need to hover on the box

To get syncing fear detox

Once young you were so beautiful,

lively, strong and colourful,

Now you've gone pale and grey,

the sad signs of old decay.

Was it big money that lured you to malign

of this cripple by design?

Don't be stubborn and stick,

but bring us back our one glance tick!

Hello Adam,

Your foggy technical explanation is not convincing and is only looking at this problem from your point of view.

You have many customers, who do not care about “Smart Sync” who are totally unhappy with the disappearing of the green checkmark.

Their request is simply ignored.  You are being stubborn. Not even willing to look at an alternative, like an option that the user could decide to activate or not, or simply coloring the icon to better visualize the Dropbox status.

I am very disappointed with Dropbox attitude versus a considerable number of faithful customers.

Georges

When my system tray is getting fuller of icons from Google Drive, OneDrive, etc., the new open box (which always used to mean "offline") just blends in and nothing draws the eye.  Reduces my efficiency just one more bit.  PC computer work is chock full of distraction away from actual work. Now that I have to hover to determine what's going on, I'll get distracted by all the extra information over there, or something completely different.

Appreciate the more detailed explanation, Adam. But this doesn't solve the underlying problem: Quite a lot of Dropbox users had become reliant on the feature which was removed, the green tick. 

I think we all understand now that your team is repurposing the green indicator for Smart Sync, and that seeing green on the icon will soon mean, for some users, that the file they're working on is local and not necessarily synced. So would the design team consider providing some other synced indicator for non-Smart Sync users? Or even the option to use a feature like that in the settings? Because someone over there must realize that your new offering is only going to appeal to one particular subset of Dropbox users, namely those people who want to/need to do everything in the cloud. 

A bible verse said "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." (Proverbs 16:18)  Dropbox doesn't listen to the customer and insisted on making such stupid changes, it's just really sad that Dropbox has this kind of attitude.  Dropbox has been in my daily life activities, it's very important to me.  Although I really hate to change, I am afraid that I will have to learn and readjust my habit with other services soon . 

#BringBackTheGreenTick

Please bring back the green 'fully synced' checkmark.

At least make it an option to choose.

I’m a paying customer using Dropbox for years, and I hate the new icon. You have to look at it 3 times to make sure it is fully synced.

I read Adam's note in this thread and even if I can understand his point, I must stay with all other users who really miss the former green checkmark (as well as other variants). I understand this is quite common case in cross-platform applications, yet is a typical case where following the standard imposed on one platform means a stepback on another. 
I suggest at least a configuration option should be provided to allow the original checkmark to appear as in past times for Windows users, from a "political" point of view it is like leaving users more freedom vs. forcing a "communist" approach where everybody must adhere to central decisions (otherwise some "political re-education" camp up in Siberia is waiting for us).

Apart from joking, PLEASE LET US HAVE BACK THE GREEN CHECKMARK ICON!

Thanks

Please bring back the green tick. It was super helpful. Why you guys want to fix something that is not broken and works perfectly with human beings!!!