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Selecting all starred photos
I need to select all of the photo's that we recently starred. The only way I can see them all together is on my homepage but from there you cannot select multiple photo's and there are no checkboxes. Shift or control mouse clicks don't work.
When I go to the folder I know they are in there is no way to sort by "starred" or filter "starred".
A star appears next to those photo's which have been starred when I am in that folder but as soon as I click the checkbox the stars for all other "starred" photo's just disappear.
I have also tried searching for "starred" photo's in the search bar but it doesn't come back with the correct results.
I had my wife go through over 6,000 photo's to figure out which one's she'd like in our holiday calendar and she "starred" over 300 photo's.
Also tried going into the attributes on the local files on my PC hoping that there was some tag that dropbox adds to these files that I could sort by but still nothing.
If I can't figure this out I am a DEAD man LOL! Really not funny 😞
Is there is no way other way to do this other than opening each individual picture from my homepage and downloading them 1 at a time?
- Starring a file only makes it appear on your home page for quick access. There's no way to select all or filter on all starred files.
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- I agree. And I use Dropbox primarily for other purposes myself. I suspect they have decided photo storage is something they want to actively discourage, if their updates and changes are any indicator. Which is fine, I guess. But when my current subscription is set to renew I expect I will pay for cloud storage in another location that both provides for document and file sharing, but also allows for easy photo management and sharing; unless that trend reverses.
Agree totally. Most annoying thing ever. Just wasted unbelievable amount of time on a project with a v tight deadline. Fuming. Dropbox, this seems like such a basic requirement - to be able to move and manipulate selected photos.
- I’m about done downloading all content from Dropbox because of this. If you have Amazon Prime it’s a MUCH better deal and photos can be moved around.
This is laughably bad. One more reason why other cloud companies are eating Dropbox's lunch. This was their race to lose and they're actively working to lose it. I'm picturing some overpaid kid in a hoddie saying, "nah, the users are wrong on this one."
I especially love how our options for @Rich's posts are to upvote or to upvote. "Works as designed" is the least helpful, most infuriating thing one can say to a group of users who say the design is crap. Whoever wrote the use case for "star to display on home page and do practical" clearly hasn't used any other apps or websites before.
Yep, please add the ability to select all starred (or even create tags and select by tag?).
Thanks.
Allow me to add my dissatisfaction with and disappointment in the Star function.
A <Select all starred> function (both within folders, and in the aggregate starred view) would be the logical second half to the starring function. Then the function to move/copy the selected files to an existing/new folder.
- Rich
Super User II
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