{"id":37389,"date":"2013-03-12T21:54:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T19:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=37389"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:34:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:34:34","slug":"updated-dropbox-desktop-apps-get-better-notifications-and-sharing-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/updated-dropbox-desktop-apps-get-better-notifications-and-sharing-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated Dropbox desktop apps get better notifications and sharing features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"dropbox updates desktop apps\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/updated-dropbox-desktop-apps-get-better-notifications-and-sharing-features\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27926\" title=\"dropbox icon\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/08\/icon.png\" alt=\"dropbox icon\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;re a <a title=\"dropbox\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/b\/dropbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dropbox<\/a> power user, you&#8217;ll be glad to know that the company has updated is desktop apps to be a little more user friendly. You can now manage simple sharing requests and view events from the Dropbox popup on your desktop.<\/p>\n<p>If someone invites you to a shared folder or document, you can accept their invitation right from the notification or menu bar icon in Windows or OS X. These notifications happen in real time so you can quickly act on notifications. Sharing has also been made easier. A &#8220;Share&#8221; button will pop up next to a file in the Dropbox menu, allowing you to get a link to share your file or folder.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-37391\" title=\"dropbox mac menu\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/03\/mac-966x1024.png\" alt=\"dropbox mac menu\" width=\"600\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/03\/mac-966x1024.png 966w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/03\/mac-283x300.png 283w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/03\/mac.png 972w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The mobile Dropbox apps will also be receiving some love. <a title=\"dropbox android\" href=\"http:\/\/dropbox.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> and <a title=\"dropbox iphone\" href=\"http:\/\/dropbox.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a> users will have the ability to view notifications for shared folders in the latest version of Dropbox. This is something that you could already do on the web under the &#8220;Events&#8221; section but it&#8217;s nice to see it incorporated across all of Dropbox&#8217;s products.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"dropbox blog\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.dropbox.com\/2013\/03\/discover-the-new-dropbox-menu-on-your-computer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dropbox Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a Dropbox power user, you&#8217;ll be glad to know that the company has updated is desktop apps to be a little more user friendly. You can now manage simple sharing requests and view events from the Dropbox popup on your desktop. If someone invites you to a shared folder or document, you can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/updated-dropbox-desktop-apps-get-better-notifications-and-sharing-features\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Updated Dropbox desktop apps get better notifications and sharing features&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":37391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2659],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-37389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiondropbox"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333256,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37389\/revisions\/333256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37389"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=37389"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=37389"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=37389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}