How do I silence the sound for syncing notifications?
You can actually go to Settings, Select Notifications & Actions and then scroll down where the Dropbox icon is shown and turn off the noticiation settings (Banners and Sounds)
You can actually click on it and select what you want to have with Notifications
Hello Samantha, yes, that way will certainly stop the notification chime, but only because you've turned off Dropbox notifications altogether.
The chime is really nothing to do with Dropbox, it's a Windows10 'feature', one which is easy enough to mute if you find notifications useful but don't want the noise.
How to customise your Windows10 notifications
ya, Robert. that's it... windows 10 doesn't do it. So turn it off in dropbox. thanks!
Thank you for the simple & effective instructions!!!
I found YvoneC's method to be just what I wanted. ALL dropbox notifications off! The sound for annoying reasons. The BIG Bar that floats across my lower right screen off because otherwise it blocks me seeing things I'm actually trying to work on whether I'm on dropbox or not.
However will "off" also stop me seeing the LITTLE icon that shows info about different versions of a document that I've deliberately opened IN DROPBOX?
The official D'box instructions to right click the Tray Icon does not produce the "preferences" option -which would be easier if it was true!
I've turned sound notification off before. Now today it was back on. Dropbox you need to fix this.
Go to Settings >System > Notifications & Actions, scrolled down and clicked the 'Dropbox' icon, then set “Play a sound when notification arrives” to “Off”
THAT DOESN'T WORK. Why the hell doesn't DropBox have an option to stop sending sound? This is REALLY annoying.
I'm talking about Windows 10. Turning off notifications for DropBox in Windows 10 doesn't stop the f'ing sound that's constantly chiming in the background. Why doesn't DropBox have an option to stop the sound???
This issue is NOT fixed. When I save a file not in dropbox, but rather, just locally on my C drive, I get no annoying sound. When I save something within dropbox, I get that very loud chime.
I turned off all notifications from dropbox in the windows settings as well as in the dropbox app down in the taskbar. It does nothing. The sound on my home computer, which I use for work is still there. There is no sound on my work computer at the office.
it worked, thanks!
On Windows 10 you can go to Notifications & Actions (type it in the search field in at the Start button). Scroll down to Dropbox and click on it. You can then turn off the sound and leave the other type notification on.
This does not work. I've followed your instructions to the tee and Windows 10 still plays the chime when files are changed/synced. Here's a screenshot showing both dropboxes are disabled. But I still hear that stupid chime.
gameusguyus wrote: This does not work. I've followed your instructions to the tee and Windows 10 still plays the chime when files are changed/synced.
This does not work. I've followed your instructions to the tee and Windows 10 still plays the chime when files are changed/synced.
Then you have a problem with Windows 10. I can confirm that setting Dropbox notifications to Off on that screen does infact disable notifications completely. You can also just click Dropbox on that screen (instead of clicking the on/off switch) and further customize the notifications so that sounds are disabled but the notification still appears.
These are all settings within the Notifications screen in Windows 10.
Okay, y'all are gonna love this. I have my Dropbox account on my girlfriend's laptop (I'm sure you can already see where this is going) and it'd sit behind me on her desk and everytime it'd sync it'd play it on her laptop. In my defense though, her laptop is unplugged and lid is closed and I had no idea the thing was even on because none of the lights were on. I feel like an idiot, sorry for wasting your time Rich.
Dropbox has no sounds. Any notification sounds you hear are coming from your operating system.
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