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"View your recycle bin for Dropbox" - how can I disable this?
I'm not sure if it's a recent addition or if I simply didn't notice it before, but recently, at the bottom of the open "Recycle Bin" on Windows, it has a bar along the bottom that says "View your rec...
I found where this problem is coming from and located.
If you have done anything with sync setting in Dropbox, this will appear in registry.
Delete ONLY the blue highlighted entry RecycleBinUrl.
It should then disappear in the Recycle Bin explorer area.
It worked for me.
FYI... IT IS NOT A WINDOWS OS level problem. It is created by Dropbox.
Mark
Super User II
Super User II
TNTyce wrote:
Has there been any solution to this problem? I now have the same thing showing in my Recycle Bin explorer. It is very annoying. Thank you for any help.
It isnt a Dropbox issue I'm afraid - its something that has been done at OS level.
Have you recently changed any files in Windows etc.?
I found where this problem is coming from and located.
If you have done anything with sync setting in Dropbox, this will appear in registry.
Delete ONLY the blue highlighted entry RecycleBinUrl.
It should then disappear in the Recycle Bin explorer area.
It worked for me.
FYI... IT IS NOT A WINDOWS OS level problem. It is created by Dropbox.
Great find.
Now, Dropbox, since it's not a Windows issue but a Dropbox issue - can you please ask the devs to add a settings toggle or something along those lines, set it to default to 'off', and then notify users of the availability of this feature...that apparently only the devs were aware of?
I'm comfortable editing the registry just as TNTyce is, but I know a lot of people who would brick their machine (or their brain, or both) if they tried to implement this fix.
anastrophe,
Did the fix work for you?
Yep, very straightforward and easy. But users shouldn't have to do registy editing to disable a feature they never asked for - I'm sure you agree.
Thanks for finding the solution (a solution to a very stupid problem, I might add).
For the sake of making it easier to copy-paste for other people, here's the registry address: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\SyncRootManager
You can also ctrl+f for RecycleBinUrl, but please make sure you don't accidentally delete a key with the same name for some other application.
