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Sequential ordering of photos within an Album
Is it possible to rearrange the ordering or listing of the photos in an Album such that they will be viewed in the Dropbox Photo Viewer in a specific sequence?
(This may be important for the development of an idea, the life-cycle of a pet, progressive schooling of a child, or the time-sequenced construction of a house, etc.)
Seems that when I create the Album and add photos to it, the order in which they appear in the Photo Viewer is random.
Can this display sequence be altered by means of title, date captured,, date added to Album, etc.?
With thanks, Richard R.
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Is there a way to add a comment to a photo in an album?
- Mark
Super User II
If that is correct, that is something that needs to be changed.
Peggy - Dropbox are shutting down Carousel and Albums as I've already said.
And no. You cannot add comments.
OK, I'm a simpleton and still don't understand how I can arrange photos (files) within a folder. For a presentation (historical preservation application) I need to rearrange the files I've got in a folder to a specific order, and then number each photo. I am not using albums or Carousel.
I've been loading pictures into the folder, but have not found a way to re-arrange them once they are there, in other words.
Is there a way?
I don't believe Dropbox is shutting down albums. They existed before Carousel and I think they will exist after. It's very unfortunate you can't sort in albums. In my opinion, Dropbox would be the best place to store and share photos because I could keep them as separate files at my resolution of choice and in my control, but there current photo strategy, feature set and solutions appear to be have been designed by committee. A botched opportunity. But maybe recoverable if they talk to real users.
After creating an album from a file, all the photos appeared but are not in date order. Is there a way to manually move individual photos around in an album?
Dianne G., apparently not... going to try to revise the creation/modification date in the photos metadata to get them in the right order, but what a hassle...
It's completely crazy to me as a photographer that photo's are not loaded into an album in sequential order. I can store images here but to share an album with clients in a muddled up order is very unprofessional. This definitely needs to change!
Why can't I even see the file name? If I want to load a file from an album into Photo Shop, it is such a MAJOR hassle!
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