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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.
I should have mentioned that while I send my photos to Google Photos (free) which makes searching and sharing a breeze, I also backup full res files to OneDrive as I have an MS Office subscription.
I know some folks have an aversion to some vendors. I'm happy with this solution... for now. 🙃
I know some folks have an aversion to some vendors. I'm happy with this solution... for now. 🙃
It amuses me that somewhat early in this conversation some idiot from Dropbox said the point of this is to treat all files the same, so it's actually an advantage for us. In reality, there are two classes of files people care about on a computer: viewable and non-viewable. They are different and should be treated differently as a result. This change is really stupid. That's as constructive as I can be because there's simply no other way to describe it.
The dropbox client not being able to maintain more than 300k files is bad enough, but this is the last straw for me. I'm out. My personal and business accounts both heavily rely on albums.
If you really want to get in touch with Dropbox and ask questions or make your feelings known, I would suggest Twitter. I made a post to @DropboxSupport and received a reply within 4 hours. It wasn't what I wanted to hear but they did reply.
I personally have been using Flickr for years. Once you get used to their bulky interface it works very well. But it doesn't solve the problem of files other than photos. For that I am staying with Dropbox. I have used Google Drive and One Drive and neither works as well or as flawlessly as Dropbox.
- 3+ years as a paying customer, with one of the very tangible benefits of the service being their Photos options. I'm open to suggestions on a full replacement alternative. I suppose now they are just like OneDrive, Google Drive, Box, and all the other variants. Maybe it's time to create my "OwnCloud".
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