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Add option to disable icon overlays in Windows Explorer
Please add an option to disable Dropbox icon overlays. It is so frustrating to remove Dropbox Shell Icon identifiers from the top of ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers list after each update!
It is disrespectful to users to decide for them which overlays they need.
I'm using TortoiseGit and I really need its overlays, they are useful and important for my work. Every time Dropbox updates I can no longer see status icons and have to go to Registry editor and remove newly added and USELESS Dropbox overlays.
I've seen dozens of feature requests from Dropbox users for many years but Dropbox pretends everything is fine!
UPD:
I had patience to open a thread and communicate with Dropbox team on this issue. After almost 2 years, more than 100 upvotes they have just thrown my idea away suggesting me to edit Windows registry. I've heared your answer, that's how you treat your loyal users.
So long Dropbox!
It is most important! We need it! Please fix it!
stdedos several annoyed people mean nothing to Dropbox. But dozens of their shouts in this thread can do a job.
Thank you for your attention. Please consider voting up and sharing this idea.I agree it should be for users to decide whose icons they prefer... In the meantime, I found this web page which describes a fix (if the conflict is between Dropbox and TortoiseGit). It worked fine for me but I still think Dropbox should fix this (or at least have an option whereby users can decide whether Dropbox icons are wanted or not...)
Dear Dropbox Development Team,
How many times do paying customers need to hit you over the head with the problem about messing with user selected Windows folder icons? How many? Apparently whatever WE do as a community has no effect on motivating you to get this problem fixed. I have been a Dropbox customer for about five years! Yep, five years. During that time you still DO NOTHING.
ONE SIMPLE REQUEST. Wake up!! As a community we should all post a request (thousands per day), and just inundate you with the same request, until you fix the problem. How about it community! I depend on tools like this to di my job everyday. I don't need any dead weight to make my job any harder than it is!!! Get cracking!!
Please rework how your overlays work.
This image of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers is at the very least ridiculous
given that the Windows is limiting the available overlays to 15/11. (Yes, this image maybe does not make enough, since it's after I have modified this to fix my system; however, your developers will know how it appears originally.)
That is more like a bug report rather than a "suggestion that users can vote on".
It's highly technical and very specific, half of the users don't even understand it.
I assume that was obvious enough.
I will just delete my account and stop supporting them, and migrate to my cloud.
I refuse to let anyone tell me "what is best for me", with their petty ignorance.
I think it's more powerful if dozens cancel their accounts to shouting.
But I guess that's just me.
stdedos you're not the only person in this thread who thinks cancelling account is the only option.
I thought like you too but now I want to try different approach.
Please vote this idea up and share link to it wherever you find it appropriateThis is an extremely important bug fix, NOT a feature. Dropbox repeatedly restores its icon overlays as the the top of the list, even after I manually deleted from the registry.
Other programs provide an option to disable icon overlays - this option should mandatory for Dropbox. It is fine for the option to default to enabled on install, but I must be able to change it.
