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Syncing icons on the files in the Dropbox folder have changed
Hello The Finder Extension Icons indicating whether a file or folder is Online Only or Available Offline are showing up in my Finder, however, the statuses are incorrect. For instance a folder that ...
Just for clarity for anyone skimming through... when I reached out to Dropbox support about the icon issue, this was the explanation they gave:
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Dropbox Support Response
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We’ve recently updated our sync icons to give you a more accurate idea of what sync state your files and folders are in.
For example:
- A file with the available offline icon
green background with a white tick) means that the file is downloaded to your PC/Mac. Files in this state have been made available offline by right clicking the file and selecting Make available offline. - A file with the available icon (
white background with a green tick), means that the file is downloaded to your PC/Mac. Files in this state have been made available by opening the file with a double click or using a 3rd party app. - A file with the online-only icon (
grey background with a white cloud), means that the file is online-only and is merely a placeholder file which takes up close to zero bytes on your PC/Mac
A folder’s sync icon will depend on what files are contained within that folder.
For example:
- If a folder contains at least 1 online-only file then the folder’s sync icon will be online-only
- If a folder contains zero online-only files and at least 1 available file then its sync icon will be the available icon
- If a folder contains only available offline files then its sync icon will be available offline
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A folder’s sync icon will depend on what files are contained within that folder.
For example:
- If a folder contains at least 1 online-only file then the folder’s sync icon will be online-only
- If a folder contains zero online-only files and at least 1 available file then its sync icon will be the available icon
- If a folder contains only available offline files then its sync icon will be available offline
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Exactly! Where is the icon that indicates that there are 'only online files' inside the folder? Because that's the one we need to see at one glance which folder need to be actually put entirely to 'online only' to make some space on the computer really quick - when the notifications starts to rain in that there is no more space left on the hard drive. Come on, i can't imagine that a developer reading this, couldn't think of that this change would make it all so much more complex.
NOCU sorry for redundancy but please VOTE for the idea, which is trying to get Dropbox to bring back the old icons which actually worked. Here is the thread to up-vote please:
with pleasure, thanks for all efforts!
done!
arigoldfilms Is it just me, or is there no option to VOTE? Seems to me this thread type changed from "Dropbox-ideas" to "Ask the community" where there is no VOTE option. I remember voting for this change earlier, now I came back to copy the link and share it with my colleagues but it's different.
Link people post so others would go and vote:
Link I get redirected to:
