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Darren S.1
Collaborator | Level 10
8 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's avatar
    RichardDBX
    8 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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cdysthe
Collaborator | Level 9
8 years ago
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.
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M S.1
Collaborator | Level 9
8 years ago

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. 

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