Selecting all starred photos

Hi again

I've just had reason to repeat the exercise I did in the previous post, and I've got a couple of typos in the commands.

The two commands should be:-

sed "s/>/>\n/g" photolist.html > photolist1.html

grep "^<a.*starred" photolist1.html | sed "s/^.*preview\///" | sed "s/\" class=\"sta.*//" > filelist.txt

NOTE ALSO - there is a maximum number of starred files that can be displayed on the front page - 1000.  As many as you like can be starred, but only a thousand are displayed.

thank you, 

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The only way that worked for me was through Dropbox's Iphone App.

 

Open the App.

 

Go to the folder with your files, some of which are already "starred".

 

Select "List View" [this does not work while on "Grid View"].

 

Tap on Select (top right).

 

And then Select from your list - manually, one by one - all the files that have the "star" next to their name.

 

It's not the most straightforward way and Dropbox can definitely improve this functionality, but if your starred files are not in the thousands and/or if you are patient enough, this solution should work.

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that is a solution! It is still a fail from dropbox, but no my star-selection wasnt pointless!

Thanks for this suggestion, mri. True, Dropbox need to sort this, but it's good to have a work-around.

Appreciate your help.

Cheers

Iain

Agree - I starred photos with the assumption that the collection could than be accessed - this is not functional

There is nothing for Dropbox to fix here as the feature is working as intended. The purpose of starring a file is to make it appear on your Dropbox Home page for easy access; nothing more.

• https://help.dropbox.com/desktop-web/star-doc-file-folder

This is one of the many reasons its time to find a new app for my photos.  Dropbox is not user friendly and my photos  and docs are too important to have here.

I could not agree with the utter lunacy of this restriction. When it comes to file organizing and photo organizing in particular Dropbox is beyond inadaquete. Finding, moving, organizing photos is nigh near impossible to do efficiently. This is especially irksome when it comes to trying to share images. If I want to share a group of photos I have to put them in their own folder, but sorting photos requires looking at them and there is no way to tag photos for sorting or moving to a file efficiently. 

In all seriousness Dropbox, if you can't fix this problem this will probably be my last year using your service.

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pablopk wrote:

When it comes to file organizing and photo organizing in particular Dropbox is beyond inadaquete.

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Dropbox's photo mamangement used to be more than adequate, and in fact better than most other services, but they've been going backwards in recent years. We've lost Carousel (a fantastic app to manage photos on a mobile device), Albums, the previous design of the Photos page (hell, the entire website design sucks now!), the basic capabilities to manage the photos in the main location we're viewing them from, etc. Each change is accompanied by a message that they're looking into ways to improve the site, but improvements never come. Dropbox says they'll launch improvements as they learn how we prefer to work with Photos, but the ways we've preferred have all been removed.

Fact is, Dropbox is no longer the best tool for photo management, and they seem to not care about that anymore. They continue to remove features in the name of improvement, but actual improvements never come, and I seriously doubt that they ever will at this point. Photo and video management is just not on their radar anymore.