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Martin2907's avatar
Martin2907
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Vault

About Vault, I don't understand why if we want more privacy with our documents they can be seen in the Dropbox desktop application in the activity and synchronization history section after having blocked Vault. In my opinion, when Vault is blocked, my activity or history should not be seen if it is not Vault. Although they will not be able to enter without the 6-digit pin, they will be able to see my files violating my privacy, which is not logical. If I save something in Vault it's because I don't want anyone else to see it, it doesn't make sense for it to be seen in activity and history. Also it locks after 3 minutes of inactivity which is very little, they should allow the user to choose the time to automatically lock Vault. I hope they solve it soon because other services already do it correctly. At school, when I was a child, they taught me that if something is private it must be private and not be exposed, hopefully Dropbox as a company thinks of users who want more privacy can achieve it or at least give them the option to choose if they want to expose something or not

  • LightBluePen's avatar
    LightBluePen
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    I agree completely with this post. I found this thread looking for a solution to hide the items from the sync history, but apparently it's by design... because I'm sure all banks also leave a list of all items locked in their vault for anyone to see.

     

    I also agree that it locks way too quickly and it causes issues with the synchronisation.

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
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    Hi there Martin2907, thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts on this with us.

     

    Your feedback has been noted in our system - please let us know if you have anything else to add. 

     

    Thanks!

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