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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
This is the most transparently arrogant and stupid piece of corporate down-talk I've seen. Ever. To write they are seeking for ways to improve a service whle announcing only elimination of functionality . . . is simply . . . I'm at a loss for descriptors which are not obscene.
The only corporate reply to this discussion os that they are clearing up the customer's "confusion" . . . this is talk worthy of Sean Spicer. There is NO confusion: they are eliminating the only functionality which sets them apart from the competition for photographers' business. They decided to ditch a user base which creates the cost of maintaining the software.
Given it is now two weeks before the drop-dead date, and they've not responded, I will look about for alternatives.
Time to look at the competition.
PS: I wonder whether any of the corporate types are actually reading any of this . . .
Totally agree.
Check out Google Photos/Drive if you haven't already. I've migrated all of my Dropbox data across after their shocking decision and I couldn't be happier with the Google solution. They offer a free unlimited storage solution for images too if you don't need to upload images in their raw format.
I also found a bit of free kit out the that connects to your Dropbox and Google account and will transfer everthing for you behind the scenes.
Silly fat cats at Dropbox made a bad call and they've lost me as a lifeling subscriber.
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