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I've just seen the banner that says "The Photos page is changing on 30 June 2017 but your pictures will stay safe in your Dropbox account. Learn more". The gist is that they are removing the final re...
Hi everyone,
Thanks again for your continued feedback on our upcoming changes.
I wanted to let you know that we've heard your concerns about how difficult it is to preserve your album structures in Dropbox. Our engineers have created a simple album export tool to help make this process easier. It's available starting today at the following URL:
www.dropbox.com/photos/album_download
The tool will allow you to download your albums to your desktop as .zip files. Please note that you'll be downloading a new copy of your photos, not moving them, so the photos will still exist in your Dropbox in the original location you saved them.We hope this tool will help alleviate some of the frustration that some of you have reported in this thread. If you have any problems using the tool, feel free to contact us via www.dropbox.com/support.
Regards,
Richard
Zed
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHello everyone,
I read all your comments regarding the upcoming change of the Photos page. We appreciate providing feedback on this and please I kindly request that we keep the discussion active in the form of constructive criticism - I will personally gather the feedback and forward it to our developers on this.
Regarding this change, Dropbox is committed to being the best place for you to work with all your files. The Photos page on dropbox.com — which includes the timeline and albums — only works with certain image types, doesn’t support team workflows, and isn’t aligned with our new web redesign.
As a result, we’ve decided to sunset the Photos page so we can focus on building new and better ways for you to work with all your file types, including photos.
After June 30, you’ll no longer be able to create or share albums on the web, or browse photos in the current timeline view. Your photos will remain safe in Dropbox, and you can view them like any other file in your Dropbox. The quick scroll functionality of the current Photos timeline will no longer be available, but you'll be able to view all your photos in a redesigned page using the same link to Photos in the left navigation bar.
Additionally, our recently-launched website redesign introduces gallery view, a new way of viewing your files as large thumbnail previews. This view works for photos, and also many other file types.
Once again, thanks for taking time to provide feedback on this change and feel free to reach out back here for additional comments on this change. If you have any suggestions, ideas, requests you can post them here and I will make sure that every comment will reach our team.
Thank you!
Responding to your request for constructive criticism, would it be possible to post a visual aid to the new UX. A simple YouTube video describing the new user experience would go a long way towards helping your customers understand the upcoming changes.
JedDinger wrote:
Responding to your request for constructive criticism, would it be possible to post a visual aid to the new UX. A simple YouTube video describing the new user experience would go a long way towards helping your customers understand the upcoming changes.On similar lines: is there going to be any functionality that replicates e.g. albums and timeline? Or will photos just be treated as files like any other (as the messages seem to imply)
For those thinking of switching, as I am, here is a recent of photo sharing sites
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/comparing-the-best-ways-to-store-your-photos-online/
I am thinking either Flickr or Google Photos. Unfortunately I had just renewed Dropbox for a year ... I wonder if I can get my $$ back?
(Ironically, the review above says "Dropbox, for example, has a standalone photo-focused app called Carousel, designed for simple photo sharing that backs up your photos to your account automatically".)
It seems they are indeed going to completly remove Photos as part of their interface.
If this happens I'll have to move to Google Drive.
Google Photos was always better solution but I really liked Dropbox so I was using it for all my photos.
It seems that was major mistake on my part.
Now I'll be forced to transfer 30-40 GB of photos to Google Drive. That will be easy part, the hard part will be organizing it again into albums and sharing the albums I need shared. It's gonna be messy but Google Drive has better pricing for my needs anyway (100 GB option)
https://www.google.com/drive/pricing/
This is really sneaky move on Dropbox part. None of their explanation makes any sense, for killing a great funcionality.
I concur with this. It seems as though they did not do a very good job at "unfreezing" (to borrow Lewin's Model) to their users by disseminating this information much sooner and given their customers more time to adjust to this change. A simple YouTube video would have helped. Perhaps they are trying to hide from customers that their focus is not on the photo navigation or albums any longer but on their commercial customers storing files, merely being a data storage house. Gone is the Carousel functionality (which I loved!) and this announcement further pushes me toward simply buying a large NAS and pitching the DB subscription. I think this is the nail in their coffin for sellability of their service.
- Without timeline, DB will be less usable cuz i was looking these big photos rapidly and choosing which one is that i am looking for. If it turns to thumbnails then it will not be easy to understand which photo is that i am demanding, i will need to press on them on by one to find wanted one. I hope at least you will convert album names into same folder names and same number of folders will be exist.
no automatic conversion will take place, in the statement of dropbox it says, that you have to do it manually:
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Use Dropbox folders as an alternative to albums
If you want to keep photos organized in the same way as an existing album, you’ll need to recreate that grouping in a regular Dropbox folder before June 30. Please note that Dropbox won’t be able to automatically convert existing albums into folders
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