Hi all,

I'm running Dropbox v68.3.92.  Approximately every half an hour or so, NVDA's focus is being moved to a Dropbox window which only seems to contain a single, blank edit field.  The window doesn't seem to stay on the screen, but focus isn't returned to where it was previously after it disappears.  In fact, NVDA reports it as taking up a rectangle of 0 pixels, so I don't know if anything shows up visually on the screen at all.

As you can imagine, having to dismiss these boxes several times per day is irritating.  Does anybody have a work-around?

Regards,

James Scholes
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Hi,
I do face a same problem. almost every hour I have to manually move the focus back to my main area.
It speak something "C:\..........Dropbox.exe"
It is inapplicable to turnoff Dropbox app as my work is rely on Dropbox to cooperate with partners.
And my work rely on NVDA command to speak all; everytime when NVDA speak for several minutes and the Dropbox window popup and the speak all command is interupted and I have to manually move back to my document and look for where NVDA has stoped and it is very time wasting.




James Scholes 於 24/2/2019 23:32 寫道:

Hi all,

I'm running Dropbox v68.3.92.  Approximately every half an hour or so, NVDA's focus is being moved to a Dropbox window which only seems to contain a single, blank edit field.  The window doesn't seem to stay on the screen, but focus isn't returned to where it was previously after it disappears.  In fact, NVDA reports it as taking up a rectangle of 0 pixels, so I don't know if anything shows up visually on the screen at all.

As you can imagine, having to dismiss these boxes several times per day is irritating.  Does anybody have a work-around?

Regards,

James Scholes
https://twitter.com/JamesScholes

Hi all,

I'm running Dropbox v68.3.92.  Approximately every half an hour or so, NVDA's focus is being moved to a Dropbox window which only seems to contain a single, blank edit field.  The window doesn't seem to stay on the screen, but focus isn't returned to where it was previously after it disappears.  In fact, NVDA reports it as taking up a rectangle of 0 pixels, so I don't know if anything shows up visually on the screen at all.

As you can imagine, having to dismiss these boxes several times per day is irritating.  Does anybody have a work-around?

Regards,

James Scholes
https://twitter.com/JamesScholes

On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 07:45 AM, Gene wrote:

Is there any reason to have it running constantly?

Yes.  I use Dropbox for work, so exiting and restarting the client all day long would be just as inconvenient as these pop-ups.  My Dropbox also contains a large number of source code files.  They're small in size but the Dropbox client takes a long time to index them on startup.  Not to mention the fact that one of the key selling points of the product is that it runs in the background, making cloud storage as convenient as a folder on your computer.

Hi all,

I'm running Dropbox v68.3.92.  Approximately every half an hour or so, NVDA's focus is being moved to a Dropbox window which only seems to contain a single, blank edit field.  The window doesn't seem to stay on the screen, but focus isn't returned to where it was previously after it disappears.  In fact, NVDA reports it as taking up a rectangle of 0 pixels, so I don't know if anything shows up visually on the screen at all.

As you can imagine, having to dismiss these boxes several times per day is irritating.  Does anybody have a work-around?

Regards,

James Scholes
https://twitter.com/JamesScholes


.

Hi all,

I'm running Dropbox v68.3.92. Approximately every half an hour or so, NVDA's focus is being moved to a Dropbox window which only seems to contain a single, blank edit field. The window doesn't seem to stay on the screen, but focus isn't returned to where it was previously after it disappears. In fact, NVDA reports it as taking up a rectangle of 0 pixels, so I don't know if anything shows up visually on the screen at all.

As you can imagine, having to dismiss these boxes several times per day is irritating. Does anybody have a work-around?

Regards,

James Scholes
https://twitter.com/JamesScholes

Is there any reason to have it running constantly?

I have this in dropbox 67 to.

To be honest, do you need dropbox running all day long.

I used to run projects with various people which was my main reason to keep it running at all costs, however, usually I sync data once a day and only when I have data, dropbox stays up till its not needed and then turned off.

Even if I do a project, I update dropbox, shut it down and bring it up several times a day as needed and never run it on startup so its not a big issue.



On 25/02/2019 4:32 AM, James Scholes wrote:

Hi all,

I'm running Dropbox v68.3.92. Approximately every half an hour or so, NVDA's focus is being moved to a Dropbox window which only seems to contain a single, blank edit field. The window doesn't seem to stay on the screen, but focus isn't returned to where it was previously after it disappears. In fact, NVDA reports it as taking up a rectangle of 0 pixels, so I don't know if anything shows up visually on the screen at all.

As you can imagine, having to dismiss these boxes several times per day is irritating. Does anybody have a work-around?

Regards,

James Scholes
https://twitter.com/JamesScholes


.

I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago, only at the moment its only at start up. If I leave it for about three mins then it can be closed, but not until. Last time it was according to a friend a picture of a cartoon dog promoting one of the paid for services, such as business services. I'm getting the impression that they are short of money and need moor of us to pay. Now they are not making any friends by this sort of nagging are they?

Its even worse if the nag screen does not contain any readable text.
I do have worries though as we use dropbox a lot for talking newspapers and if this goes on some of us will be looking for something less inaccessible

I only have version 67 here so maybe this mess  is on the latest version.
Brian

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Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2019 3:32 PM
Subject: [nvda] Invisible Dropbox pop-ups

Hi all,

I'm running Dropbox v68.3.92.  Approximately every half an hour or so, NVDA's focus is being moved to a Dropbox window which only seems to contain a single, blank edit field.  The window doesn't seem to stay on the screen, but focus isn't returned to where it was previously after it disappears.  In fact, NVDA reports it as taking up a rectangle of 0 pixels, so I don't know if anything shows up visually on the screen at all.

As you can imagine, having to dismiss these boxes several times per day is irritating.  Does anybody have a work-around?

Regards,

James Scholes
https://twitter.com/JamesScholes

I have this in dropbox 67 to.

To be honest, do you need dropbox running all day long.

I used to run projects with various people which was my main reason to keep it running at all costs, however, usually I sync data once a day and only when I have data, dropbox stays up till its not needed and then turned off.

Even if I do a project, I update dropbox, shut it down and bring it up several times a day as needed and never run it on startup so its not a big issue.



On 25/02/2019 4:32 AM, James Scholes wrote:

Hi all,

I'm running Dropbox v68.3.92.  Approximately every half an hour or so, NVDA's focus is being moved to a Dropbox window which only seems to contain a single, blank edit field.  The window doesn't seem to stay on the screen, but focus isn't returned to where it was previously after it disappears.  In fact, NVDA reports it as taking up a rectangle of 0 pixels, so I don't know if anything shows up visually on the screen at all.

As you can imagine, having to dismiss these boxes several times per day is irritating.  Does anybody have a work-around?

Regards,

James Scholes
https://twitter.com/JamesScholes



.

On my side, I have a feeling that I'm getting the same window, although
it's not as the firs poster described.
It's more like yours, Brian, it opens mostly when the Windows starts
and, every now and then, randomly.
I just don't know what this window is about, so I'm not sure it's the
same. May well be so, though.

Cheers,
Marcio
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Em 25/02/2019 06:17, Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io escreveu:

I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago, only at the moment its only at
start up. If I leave it for about three mins then it can be closed,
but not until. Last time it was according to a friend a picture of a
cartoon dog promoting one of the paid for services, such as business
services. I'm getting the impression that they are short of money and
need moor of us to pay. Now they are not making any friends by this
sort of nagging are they?

Its even worse if the nag screen does not contain any readable text.
I do have worries though as we use dropbox a lot for talking
newspapers and if this goes on some of us will be looking for
something less inaccessible

I only have version 67 here so maybe this mess is on the latest version.
Brian

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----- Original Message ----- From: "James Scholes"
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Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2019 3:32 PM
Subject: [nvda] Invisible Dropbox pop-ups

Hi all,

I'm running Dropbox v68.3.92. Approximately every half an hour or
so, NVDA's focus is being moved to a Dropbox window which only seems
to contain a single, blank edit field. The window doesn't seem to
stay on the screen, but focus isn't returned to where it was
previously after it disappears. In fact, NVDA reports it as taking
up a rectangle of 0 pixels, so I don't know if anything shows up
visually on the screen at all.

As you can imagine, having to dismiss these boxes several times per
day is irritating. Does anybody have a work-around?

Regards,

James Scholes
https://twitter.com/JamesScholes

It isn't clear to me if this discussion is relevant. 

https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Space/Annoying-pop-up-notifications-running-out-of-storage-How-to-stop/td-p/278023

But the message that talks about possibly stopping all notifications may be helpful.  Each comment is preceded by a line with the word menu.  Searching for this word will efficiently get you from one answer to the next.  A lot of people are disgusted by these notifications and Dropbox will have to address the problem, as you will see.

 

I didn't find anything about Snooze notifications by searching for snooze notifications Dropbox.

 

Gene

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When it opens it acts just like the tray, ie pressing space gives a menu.
One of the options on the menu that I've never heard of is snooze
notifications. Could this be a new feature which uses inaccessible display
routines. so we need somebody to go on the web site for us and report this
problem in accessibility. Somebody on here must be sighted and able to help
their web site is rather unfriendly so I have given up on the thing going
around in circles.


If somebody can look at preferences who has a working preferences system,
unlike my windows 7, could they look for this snooze function? It seems you
can stop dropbox for some minutes hours or till the next day. Not really
sure what on earth is the point in alerting people that its not active when
the whole point of dropbox as it just does its thing. I can understand it on
a portable app, where mobile data is a t a premium and you may only want it
to update on wifi, but for goodness sake the mobile app is not an off line
solution unless you pay for it on mobiles its basically just looking at the
web site. These are two different use cases.


Seems crazy if this is what it is.

 It would also explain why my  people at the studio have been having some
odd things going on on recordings if programs are shoving windows up for no
apparent reason and mouse clickers close them and  muck up the recording in
the process.

 Its been fine for years, if its not bust dont fix it.
 Brian

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> On my side, I have a feeling that I'm getting the same window, although
> it's not as the firs poster described.
> It's more like yours, Brian, it opens mostly when the Windows starts
> and, every now and then, randomly.
> I just don't know what this window is about, so I'm not sure it's the
> same. May well be so, though.
>
> Cheers,
> Marcio
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>
> Em 25/02/2019 06:17, Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io escreveu:
>> I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago, only at the moment its only at
>> start up. If I leave it for about three mins then it can be closed,
>> but not until. Last time it was according to a friend a picture of a
>> cartoon dog promoting one of the paid for services, such as business
>> services. I'm getting the impression that they are short of money and
>> need moor of us to pay. Now they are not making any friends by this
>> sort of nagging are they?
>>
>> Its even worse if the nag screen does not contain any readable text.
>> I do have worries though as we use dropbox a lot for talking
>> newspapers and if this goes on some of us will be looking for
>> something less inaccessible
>>
>> I only have version 67 here so maybe this mess is on the latest version.
>> Brian
>>
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Scholes"
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>> To: <nvda@groups.io>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2019 3:32 PM
>> Subject: [nvda] Invisible Dropbox pop-ups
>>
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm running Dropbox v68.3.92. Approximately every half an hour or
>>> so, NVDA's focus is being moved to a Dropbox window which only seems
>>> to contain a single, blank edit field. The window doesn't seem to
>>> stay on the screen, but focus isn't returned to where it was
>>> previously after it disappears. In fact, NVDA reports it as taking
>>> up a rectangle of 0 pixels, so I don't know if anything shows up
>>> visually on the screen at all.
>>>
>>> As you can imagine, having to dismiss these boxes several times per
>>> day is irritating. Does anybody have a work-around?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> James Scholes
>>> https://twitter.com/JamesScholes
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>

Unfortunately many of us do need dropbox all day long.
I only see it at start up at the moment, or rather don't see it. It has the knock on effect that a calendar pop up I have cannot be minimised until the window closes on its own a few minutes.
Can somebody perhaps contact dropbox themselves. They normally are helpful if a little slow. After all they may innocently be closing these windows for the sighted, ie, they are transparent but oblivious that the open window is not vanishing for the screenreader user.

Could be one for the  dev list in case anyone over there has a contact?

As I say, in my windows 7 there is more wrong with dropbox than just this, but as its main core functions work, I leave well alone. I used to stop updates but Dropbox then started to send me messages that I had not got the latest dropbox.
Brian

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I have this in dropbox 67 to.

To be honest, do you need dropbox running all day long.

I used to run projects with various people which was my main reason to keep it running at all costs, however, usually I sync data once a day and only when I have data, dropbox stays up till its not needed and then turned off.

Even if I do a project, I update dropbox, shut it down and bring it up several times a day as needed and never run it on startup so its not a big issue.



On 25/02/2019 4:32 AM, James Scholes wrote:

Hi all,

I'm running Dropbox v68.3.92. Approximately every half an hour or so, NVDA's focus is being moved to a Dropbox window which only seems to contain a single, blank edit field. The window doesn't seem to stay on the screen, but focus isn't returned to where it was previously after it disappears. In fact, NVDA reports it as taking up a rectangle of 0 pixels, so I don't know if anything shows up visually on the screen at all.

As you can imagine, having to dismiss these boxes several times per day is irritating. Does anybody have a work-around?

Regards,

James Scholes
https://twitter.com/JamesScholes


.

.

Has anyone looked through options in Dropbox to see if anything is available about not showing notifications or messages?  These are, presumably, shown in the system tray.  I almost never use DropBox, though I have it, and I usually don't have it running.  I don't know if I have the latest version.  But the first thing I would do is look through the options to see if anything is available.  I may check later today but it might be better if someone checks who uses it regularly, and knows they have the problem version.  Presumably, I either do or it would update if I leave it on.

 

Gene

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The whole thrust of it for us is that you can hear when new updates come in.
To try to schedule everything at the studio will cause our non tech folk a
problem
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Is there any reason to have it running constantly?  You can exit it and only
run it when you want to use it.

Gene
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Subject: [nvda] Invisible Dropbox pop-ups


Hi all,

I'm running Dropbox v68.3.92.  Approximately every half an hour or so,
NVDA's focus is being moved to a Dropbox window which only seems to
contain a single, blank edit field.  The window doesn't seem to stay on
the screen, but focus isn't returned to where it was previously after it
disappears.  In fact, NVDA reports it as taking up a rectangle of 0
pixels, so I don't know if anything shows up visually on the screen at all.

As you can imagine, having to dismiss these boxes several times per day
is irritating.  Does anybody have a work-around?

Regards,

James Scholes
https://twitter.com/JamesScholes