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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
I finally decided to switch to Google Drive and use Google Photos to backup my photos. Google's ability to help me find photos using search based on facial identity, location, date, and content is unprecedented versus any other service. I'm very happy with my decision.
After a month of evaluating other options, I came to the same conclusion, Google photos is going to be the most seamless transition. No big surprise there.
- I used Google Photos for a while and came back to Dropbox because Google Photos has some annoying bugs with Google being even more arrogant towards users than Dropbox are. I paid for Google Photos but the problems I had were not fixed and still aren't. I'm not sure where to go now when Dropbox is shoving their new "features" down our throats.
- I am now using Flickr. The user interface is a little confusing, but I've found the features more than cover what I was doing with Dropbox. I'll probably still store my photos on Dropbox, but I've been using multcloud to transfer them from Dropbox to Flickr, copying folders in Dropbox containing only photos and videos to the Albums folder on Flickr. This creates albums in Flickr automatically, which I have found useful. From there the photo content is on the Flickr Camera Roll and can be organized further. There is a bulk editing feature on Flickr that allows changing the creation date, which can be great if your device doesn't put the right meta data in the file.
cdysthe, what kind of problems do you have with Google Photos?
cdysthe wrote:
I used Google Photos for a while and came back to Dropbox because Google Photos has some annoying bugs with Google being even more arrogant towards users than Dropbox are. I paid for Google Photos but the problems I had were not fixed and still aren't. I'm not sure where to go now when Dropbox is shoving their new "features" down our throats.- Google - Bad support, too restrictive on where to mount folder and it's Google. They scan your pics and I don't trust them.
OneDrive - I have a free TB of space to use with OneDrive. Problem is that it is buggy as hell, has file limitations and have changed terms/services so many times I can't feel comfortable using them.
Unbound for DropBox is just ok... Forevery doesn't work with large photo libraries.
ShoeBox is for photos but does not do file sharing. I need file sharing for my business.
I've been looking at Sync.com but they have no photo solutions.
I have a Synology but have no interest in having 1 fail point at this time. Also would like a service that is compatible with Synology Cloud Sync. Sync.com is not one of them anyway.
I agree with Google being buggy. I have no desire to use Google for anything as it is. If you think Dropbox support is bad....
I have 1TB of free space available to me on OneDrive through Office365 but they have an insane file limitation, plus they have pulled support for features and benefits the same way as DB is doing. No warning and breaking promises made just to get people to sign up. Probably the buggiest of the 3 and the least flexible.
Have any of you looked into ShoeBox for photos? I tried it but I couldn't stomach having to pay for a separate cloud service for photos as it is just for photos.
There's Unbound.... It's just ok... Forevery just doesn't work (support flat out said "oh... yeah it doesn't work well with large libraries"... facepalm). None of this is pro software.
I've been looking into Sync.com but again there aren't really any photo management features besides automatic uploading from your phone.
- Thanks for the tip! I just checked it out and yep, I'm moving onto Google Photos as well. Do you know if there is a way to transfer straight from Dropbox to Google Photos without having to download the pictures first?
- Rich
Super User II
mr_e wrote:
Do you know if there is a way to transfer straight from Dropbox to Google Photos without having to download the pictures first?Neither Dropbox nor Google has such functionality. There are third-party services you can use to move files between cloud accounts. Do a Google search and you'll find them easily.
FWIW, I am using multcloud successfully to transfer thousands of photos and videos from Dropbox to Flickr, creating albums in Flickr (with the same name as the directory on Dropbox) of each directory of photos and videos coming from Dropbox. I purchased their premium service, so I'm not sure how well it would work without the premium service, especially if you have a large volume of data to transfer. I know they have an option to use Google Drive as one of the sources or destinations, but I have not tried multcloud with Google.
Awesome, thanks!
bwraith wrote:FWIW, I am using multcloud successfully to transfer thousands of photos and videos from Dropbox to Flickr, creating albums in Flickr (with the same name as the directory on Dropbox) of each directory of photos and videos coming from Dropbox. I purchased their premium service, so I'm not sure how well it would work without the premium service, especially if you have a large volume of data to transfer. I know they have an option to use Google Drive as one of the sources or destinations, but I have not tried multcloud with Google.
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