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Darren S.1's avatar
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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kfrancis
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago

Right, but can't you choose to show in folder, and all the files you have selected can then be moved into a folder? If that is the case, it would still work for my needs--but I would need to be able to multi-select on the Photo page, where I can actually see the photos I'm looking at. 

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M S.1
Collaborator | Level 9
8 years ago

My very favorite part about the new "feature" is where you select a few photos that are lucky enough to reside in the same folder together and then choose to view them in the folder.  Good luck finding the selected photos if you have hundreds of pics in that folder!

 

As soon as I find a solution to version history (I purchase the 1 year version history plan) I am out.  This is really, really bad.

 

I don' t even care that much about naming or maintaining albums.  I JUST WANT TO CLICK SOME PICS AND SEND SOMEONE A LINK!!

 

It would be nice if Dropbox would say.  "Hi all.  We have decided to change directions as a company and will be slowly phasing out X and Y over the next few N.  We apologize for the inconvenience this will cause but our business model is not sustainable in its current state and we understand if our services no longer meet your requirements."

 

At least I could empathize with  THAT instead of sitting here scratching my head saying "WTF?!".

 

Wow.

  • kfrancis's avatar
    kfrancis
    Helpful | Level 5
    8 years ago

    I totally agree with all of this!

  • Anthony A.25's avatar
    Anthony A.25
    Helpful | Level 6
    8 years ago

    The most annoying part about this is the missed opportunity. Instead of removing the album/meta information functionality, it should have been ADDED for all other file types. Forcing files to go in a single folder is deprecated and has been for years. Using labels to allow files to be categorized multiple times would have been an extremely awesome feature. What we have now is just stupid.

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