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wowtah
8 years agoHelpful | Level 6
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, ...
Allan G.
8 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Thank you to Madpentiste on page 12 for the suggestion for Ubuntu users, I may have to give that a try. My problem in Ubuntu is that either the greying out of the icon for un-synced is not working, or else the change is so minor I can't see the difference.
I am used to the green tick, and if it ain't broke.... However there definitely needs to be a clearer distinction between synced and unsynced. I don't want to shut down a home computer thinking everything is synced and then find on the road that those important files I needed have not updated.
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