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There's a red indicator on the Dropbox icon in the system tray, what is this?
Hello --- it looks like there is a number one (1) in a red dot on the dropbox icon in the system tray -- what is this and what does it mean? Thanks
I had to click on the Dropbox icon in the tray, go to the Notifications tab, and even though the messages were marked as read I clicked on the More icon on the right side (3 dots) of each notification and dismissed each notification. That finally solved the problem for me to get rid of the red 1 to disappear from the Dropbox icon.
- Lusil
Dropbox Staff
Hey mh1106, thanks for letting us know what did the trick for you - awesome work with the troubleshooting!
If you have any other questions or thoughts for us in the future, don't hesitate to give us another nudge.
In the meantime, I hope you have a lovely day ahead!
Dang, I thought that might take care of it, but no. The red dot is still there.
I'm having the same issue as cindy t.3, system tray icon has a red dot on the lower left side with no number in the dot. The only way I can open the App is ctrl-left mouse click, double click just opens the local Dropbox folder. I have reinstalled twice now, once with the advanced reinstall instructions from https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/desktop/advanced-reinstall. I could open a ticket, but it would be the same as the one already open by cindy t.3. I'll just keep limping along for now with the ctrl-left mouse click workaround. One good note is that all the files/folders are syncing. I'm running v104.4.175 on Windows 10. My account is Dropbox Business Standard with 5 TB of storage.
