Questions about trash notifications, icon overlays, and CPU activity (@bmcfiv)

[Tony]

Windows 10, 3 Google Drive accounts linked, Dell XPS 15 2015 model, everything updated.

1. I keep receiving notifications that something was put in the trash, how do i stop that?

2. The blue icons on synced folders are constantly flickering, very annoying, is that a bug, what is going on?

3. My CPU seems to be running much harder since I installed, is this expected behavior?

[Tony]

1. odrive has a trash that is used to guard against accidental deletes. Since getting and keeping your data in the cloud service you have chosen to link to is our highest priority, we want to make sure nothing is accidentally removed from there.

You can read more about Trash and the notifications (including how to disable them) here:

Trash notifications

Hi @EthanH , We added this to let people know how trash is being managed (or not being managed). Many people have complained about forgetting that files go into the trash and they need to empty it, so this is intended to help with that, as well. You can turn off the notification through windows, or just remove the sound on the notification. You can also set auto empty trash to “Immediately” so that it does not create any notifications.

Trash notifications

It may vary slightly with Windows versions, but you should be able to get to it from the Control Panel -> Appearance (and Personalization) -> Taskbar and Navigation -> Click on the “Customize” for “Notification Area:”

2. If there is activity within odrive (you are syncing content) then you could see some icon flickering, especially if you are looking at the left-side pane where the folder tree view is accessible. Is that where you are seeing the flicker?

Here is a thread that goes through some behavior that sounds similar to your own:

https://forum.odrive.com/t/flickering-explorer-icons-high-explorer-cpu-use/50/2

3. This may be related to question #2 above. CPU will naturally be elevated if there is sync activity happening (active uploading or downloading), but it can be amplified by the left Explorer pane effect mentioned in #2.