I would like to have the CHOICE to disable the "Dropbox Almost Full" notification.
As a temporary solution, I have chose to not start Dropbox on system boot and close it, but I would like to know how can I disable this message with Dropbox open.
SOLUTION:
In windows 10 after the annoying notification, click on the speach bubble icon on the lower right of your screen, this brings up the notifictaion/ action area, right click on the dropbox notification above then " Disable notifications for this group."
That should stop you being pestered.
-dk
Seems like there's no other way to disable this harassment to push the user to upgrade to a paid plan. Uninstall the Dropbox desktop app is the only solution I found.
That is the most useless answer I have ever seen. Thank you for multiplying entropy!
Great user-oriented service you have, how about spamming my e-mail or calling me at night about changing my dropbox subscription?
It is a shameful strategy to annoy people until they subscribe or drop dropbox (no pun intended).
I am glad I'm not the only one thinking that. What a useless answer.
On Windows 10, which I'm using, you can use the system to block the notifications. Click on the very bottom right corner, the notifications icon, then select the dropbox notifications with a right click, and select "turn off all notifications for this group."
Only downside is that you might want other notifictions, depending on how you use the application. I don't use it for anything but syncing files in my office with my comp at home so I don't care about notifications of any kind. they are all just annoying to me.
This doesn't answer the question. The question was how to disable the 'almost full' notification, without having to disable all notifications.
I found how to disable the e-mail notification, but in the app settings on Windows I can't turn them off. I understand this is your businessmodel, but this is really anoying. If you offer settings for turning off some notifications, why not mention this one in the list?
With this ridiculous, condecending attitude, the moment my dropbox is full, I will be moving to a competitor.
Archimedes I was trying to reply to the main answer here, not your comment. Apparently this thing doesn't support threads. Your answer is indeed the actual answer: you can't do it, but you only if you turn off everything.
could belive to see a more crappy answere than this.
- Open the Action Center. (The speech bubble icon beside the clock, where (among other things) you get a list of all your notifications.)
- Right-click the intrusive piece of **bleep** dropbox spam notification.
- Click the "Turn off notifications" option to disable all notifications from dropbox.
An option to just get rid of the spam notification would be preferable, but I guess this is the next-best thing to do.
Hi,
I need a way shut this notification off.It ruins and affect some of my fullscreen programs.For example:Blocks screen from the corner where notification showsFreezes some programs and THIS IS BAD!Need to switch back to desktop and click it, can freeze or make some of the programs unstable.
Why should the solution be to remove files when you still have plenty of room in your account... This is so ridiculous.
That is the best answer! Thanks
this is not an answer. why is this thread marked "solved"?
Why does everyone presenting an answer not read the question?
The problem is not having ANY notification. There are several posts here that describe how to turn off ALL notifications. The problem is having a persistent 'almost full' notification, even when the user is aware of being close to the limit.
There is currently no way to turn off that message SELECTIVELY, so this thread should not be marked solved, because it is not.
Buying more space is not a solution. If you think it is: so is moving to a competitor. I understand this is Dropbox's business model, but the belittling makes me angry.
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Actually, this can be disabled in your windows settings.
This should fix all dropbox is full messages on windows 10. If this does not work for you this could be because you have not purchased a full copy of windows 10. You can purchase one and these settings will work.
@JessiMew,
Actually, this can be done in 1 easy step:
1. uninstall Dropbox
This will stop the almost full notification as well. It is not an answer to the question, but nor is yours. You would have noticed this if you had the decency to read any part of this page. Your 'solution' is even equivalent to the accepted answer.
I applaud your willingness to help, but please apply that willingness to threads where your solution is actually helpfull.
Its weird when you type uninstall dropbox in your search it just brings your browser up.
But seriously this is the only way for a user to fix the issue and continue using dropbox without the constant popup's. This is not something that can ever be fixed by the community unless you go in and edit the code of dropbox which I would not recommend.
this is almost enough to make me cancel my account.
What I am hearing is I should uninstall dropbox and move to a better service. Thanks for your useless help!
Uninstall Dropbox and look for 3rd party software to sync your data with Dropbox. There are ton available on the web
Windows 10 can now disable all notifications for an app.
From the sidebar -
- right click a notification from the app
- choose 'Turn off notifications for App X'
Haha solved? Yeah right. Absolutely useless answer that instead pushes buying more space. I only use dropbox on shared work files and thus have no use for more space. The problem? I get a [profanity removed by moderator as per Community Guidelines] notificatyion every couple hours on my computer, popping up over media or anything else I am doing. And even worse it just stays there until I click it away. Therefore I will have to manually disable dropbox on startup and only boot it up when I need to work on the shared files. But then I miss actually useful notifications about group updates. For the love of god can someone please fix this? There is nothing more infurating than little technological itches like this that should have an easy solution.
Oddly enought, in windows 7 at least, turning off notifications doesn't even stop this popup. Dropbox ignores the settings and goes right on it's way popping the space warning. I'm so near done with this service, going to try a 3rd party option like mentioned above first though.
Hey there @Barbari0n,
I just wanted to clarify that currently you can disable notifications in Windows 10 from the OS's Notifications settings, but not fully in Windows 7.
Nonetheless, I understand how important this is, and I'd be more than happy to pass your comments along to the team for future review - Thanks!
@Lusil
This remains a really annoying "feature" of the dropbox app for more than a year now it seems. It's even worse for me as I still have nearly an entire gigabyte of free space and am still receiving this notification at least daily and apparently the only way to fix this is by taking away all my dropbox notifications.
Very frustrating.
Hi!
This is a terrible compromise, absolutely terrible. The rest of the dropbox notifications are actually useful, you know, like the "dropbox link has been copied" notifications that otherwise also go away when you disable notifications as a whole. What boggles my mind, is that you would sooner instruct us to disable all notifications, which makes dropbox worse as a whole, rather than just letting us disable the annoying one because you want to intrusively advertise your service. Just let us disable it - this feature is universally hated by everyone, and not a single person that uses the free version of your service will feel compelled to buy it, if this is how you treat them.
What makes the popup annoying? Well, first and foremost, it will literally interject itself over fullscreen applications, unlike literally any other notification on the windows 10 operating system, which all otherwise abide by the "game mode" criterion - i.e. no notifications if you have games running. To make matters worse, this is also the only notification that doesn't go away unless you press that tiny little arrow in the top right corner of it, because clicking the box opens up the "upgrade your subscription page". A notification should max display for just a few seconds, and then automatically be dismissed, why on earth doesn't it? So, if you're like me, you can be playing a game and have this stupid popup occupy the screen space that would otherwise be used for UI elements that you need. And if you click on it, with exclusive fullscreen, it focuses you to the desktop. Bravo dropbox
I think Dropbox underestimates the negative impact of bloatware. Power users will find an alternative and the masses will follow.
Good luck with your business plan.
