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rbamnelkar
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5 years ago

Can I turn off notifications that others receive when I edit a file?

Everytime I edit a document, others who share the document get notified of changes made to the file. This happens every 30 seconds as I'm constantly making changes. How do turn this off so others' dr...
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Rich
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5 years ago

There's no way for you to turn notifications that they receive. Instead, they can turn off various notifications, including those for edits to files, within their own Dropbox Preferences.

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    rbamnelkar
    New member | Level 2
    5 years ago

    How do they do that?

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      Rich
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      5 years ago

      The option to disable the various notifications is within Preferences in the Dropbox app on their computers.

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