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wowtah's avatar
wowtah
Helpful | Level 6
8 years ago

Bring back the green 'synced' checkmark in the system tray.

In my Windows system tray (next to the clock), Dropbox used to show that it was fully synced by showing a green check-mark over the Dropbox icon. This was really helpfull.  If Dropbox was offline, ...
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pevogam
New member | Level 2
8 years ago

I am not opposing the change and don't mind adjusting to the new behavior (people should be a bit less lazy with their habits) especially since it means to imply the normal/default state of each dropbox is fully synced. However. faded icon to imply not syncing is much harder to process visually than a little X or some other clue so at least the choice of icons for other statuses can be improved.

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