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Darren S.1
Collaborator | Level 10
9 years ago
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The Photos page is changing...

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...
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    RichardDBX
    9 years ago

    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

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Drakhar
Helpful | Level 6
9 years ago

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.

 

 

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Rich
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9 years ago

I've merged several topics into this one so that all comments are organized in a single location. It doesn't make sense to have them spread out all over the place. A single large topic gains more visibility and makes it easier for Dropbox to see everyone's opinions. Please keep any discussion of this topic within this thread. Thank you.

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