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How can I switch off the checkmark icon?
HOW DO YOU TURN OFF THE ICON CHECKMARK
+1 for the ability to have a preference to turn off the check icons
+1 for the ability to scale the check icons
+1 for the idea of ONLY having icons for files that are NOT synced.
I use icon preview to find artwork and files, the checkmarks do block the preview. I send screenshots of folders of items and have to quit Dropbox each time I do to hide the check icons.
Please do pass this along to the development team.
These green check marks are absurdly intrusive. Please consider some other way to show that a file is synched.
Couldnt agree more !
Please pass along to the development team.
My work involves handling image files everyday and the check marks are so intrusive.
Before Smart Sync it was possible to dissable the icons, but not anymore.
Please :
+1 for the ability to have a preference to turn off the check icons
+1 for the ability to scale the check icons
+1 for the idea of ONLY having icons for files that are NOT synced.
I signed in but I could not upvote these comments. I agree, those green checks are massive and distracting. Make them 80% smaller please.
I also agree with all of this here
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+1 for the ability to have a preference to turn off the check icons
+1 for the ability to scale the check icons
+1 for the idea of ONLY having icons for files that are NOT synced.
I use icon preview to find artwork and files, the checkmarks do block the preview. I send screenshots of folders of items and have to quit Dropbox each time I do to hide the check icons.
Please do pass this along to the development team.
The big green checkmark makes it impossible to see photo thumbnails which I (and I'm sure other users) need in their cloud storage. Have there been any updates to this issue? Even making the green check marks much smaller would work. Otherwise, I'm going to have to use a different solution for media files such as photos.
Hi everyone!
The green check mark on every file icon is, of course, not a required, critical or even necessary part of the program. I know this because I've now gotten rid of it. Dropbox still works - Amazing! The great thing is, Dropbox will still tell me if something *isn't* synced, which is actually a really useful shell overlay to have in place.
I'm also not going out on too much of a limb to say that the Dropbox reps on this thread who are feigning confusion of offering to pass this off to the devs as a new feature suggestion are being disingenuous. Dropbox knows a significant minority of their users really dislike the green check. Don't expect them to add disabling the checkmarks to their "new feature" list. They could fix it in 2 hours if they wanted to; they don't.
Fortunately, after quite a bit of searching, I've found a a way around their stubbornness. Nirsoft has a free tool called ShellExView; download it and you can disable the synced file green check shell overlay icon. It will show up as DropboxExt1 Class in the list. You may need to do this after every update.
Likewise for me - its almost impossible to distinguish a Word document from Excel in MS Explorer - which is where I find my files. Please reduce the size of the overlay, and/or move it to the bottom-right corner or something like that.
If you just want to turn off the large annoying green ticks at specific times (which is what I wanted to do, as I like to take screen shots of a folder full of images when I'm sending instructions to suppliers, and the ticks get in the way) just click the drop box icon down in the taskbar, click your profile icon, and click "pause synching" - the annoying green ticks are removed, until you turn syncing back on.
- I had a working work-around for this issue by making a so-called junction point to the dropbox folder. This is a link to a folder that looks and feels like the folder itself. This served two things: 1) The junction point folder link provides a shorter dropbox folder name (D:\MyFolder instead of e.g. C:\Users\YYZ\Dropbox\MyFolder) 2) NO dropbox sync overlays over the file/folder-icons. HOWEVER SINCE THE LAST DROPBOX UPDATE THE ICON OVERLAY NOW ALSO APPEARS IN THE JUNCTION LINK OF THE FOLDER! So instead of doing something about this issue, they are making it even worse.
David G.133 wrote:HOW DO YOU TURN OFF THE ICON CHECKMARK
