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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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abelljms's avatar
abelljms
Collaborator | Level 8
3 years ago

It is a (nearly) fatal flaw of Dropbox that the icon does not REMOTELY state what status is. IF it's .uckd it should be red, if it's updating it should be amber, if it's finished it should be green.

My serfs never realize it's fallen over and stopped working again until I point to the screen.

 

It's not rocket science Jim

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