Robert J. Collaborator | Level 8

Sorry my friend. That setting makes absolutely no difference. It's a 🤡 show!

Ever since beta release 138.3.2340 I have periodically been reporting that it is difficult/impossible to keep the Dropbox icon on the taskbar after the automatic update has taken place on 64-bit systems. I wrote "Even if I set the icon to be on the taskbar in the "Taskbar Settings / Select which items appear on the…

@"Mark" @"clientreleases" Ever since Beta Build 138.3.2325 I have experienced a problem on Windows 10 64-bit systems. The problem is that after an automatic update the Dropbox icon disappears from the Taskbar into the Hidden Items popup menu. If it is moved back to the Taskbar in "Taskbar Settings / Select which items…

@"Mark", LOL. The message composer left C: alone, but when I tried to specify my D Drive as "D colon" it seems to have turned it into an emoji!

@"Mark" if I uninstall the beta version, will that also remove my local settings, such as the location (nonstandard) of my Dropbox Folder? I seem to recall having uninstalled some years ago, and then installing again, and the app created a new Dropbox folder on C: and started to download over 100Gb of files. It was a fight…

Hi @"Mark", I went to my Settings page on the Dropbox website and switched the option for Early Releases to Off, see below. Is there something else I need to do?

I recently tried to leave the beta program. I am running the 64-bit version of Windows 10. In order to leave the program I switched off the Early Releases option, downloaded the Offline Installer for the most recent Stable Build and ran it. I successfully reverted to that build and all was fine. The next morning when I…

@"clientreleases" Again, the automatic update to this release has broken the ability to keep the Dropbox icon on the Taskbar, rather than in the Hidden Icons popup menu. The "Select which icons appear on the taskbar" submenu of Taskbar Settings appears like the image below, and no amount of fiddling with the switches on…

I just noticed a misleading typo in my message above. I am not running Windows 11; both of my systems are on Windows 10. To the best of my knowledge and belief Windows 11 is not available for 32-bit systems, and never will be. Profuse apologies for my error.

This version is broken, just like the previous two. 😣

@"clientreleases" Again, the automatic update to this release has broken the ability to keep the Dropbox icon on the Taskbar, rather than in the Hidden Icons popup menu. The "Select which icons appear on the taskbar" submenu of Taskbar Settings appears like the image below, and no amount of fiddling with the switches on…

@"clientreleases" Just to clarify, the two Dropbox icons appear in the "Taskbar Settings / Select which items appear on the taskbar" window, not in the hidden items popup menu.

@"clientreleases" With this Windows beta build, and the previous one, it is difficult/impossible to keep the Dropbox icon on the taskbar after the automatic update has taken place. Even if I set the icon to be on the taskbar in the "Taskbar Settings / Select which items appear on the taskbar" window, it returns to the…

@"ernstMreicher58", If this change goes into the general release, I can forsee there being a great many confused users!

At version 37.3.22 on Windows 8.1 the image below is what I see now when Dropbox is connected, idle and "Up to date".

On Windows 10 the dropbox icon in the system notification area no longer has a green tick on it when the status is "Up to date". Was that an intended change at this build? 

It's the same problem as I reported in 14.3.17 here: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Installation-and-desktop-app/Problem-with-making-a-local-backup-of-Dropbox-folder-version-14/m-p/193333#M40904 The placeholder.* files created by that release in a subfolder called 'qebcobkqbgpbzfynfuwbof' in the .dropbox.cache folder are…

There was a long discussion on this in the old forums (now unfortunately lost), and a bug which caused case-folding appears to have been introduced in earlier experimental builds and was subsequently eliminated a few months ago. It may be possible (I'm guessing) that someone with whom the files are shared is still using…