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Darren S.1
9 years agoCollaborator | Level 10
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...
- 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
mrdavinci
9 years agoNew member | Level 2
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.
nei a.
9 years agoExperienced | Level 11
no automatic conversion will take place, in the statement of dropbox it says, that you have to do it manually:
"
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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- mrdavinci9 years agoNew member | Level 2
@nei a.
Manually but how, one by one ?
I logged into via computer and when i checked my albums, i didn't find any easy way to move photos in albums to a new folder. It looks like i need to search all photos in camera uploads folder individually to separate them and move them another folder which will take huge amount of time.
I think it will make dropbox team to lose a lot of customer. I probably will change my service if i will find a suitable one...
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