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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
RichardDBX
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi 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 am here to share my ultimate frustration with this new photo page update. You have effectively deleted the entire reason that I signed up for Dropbox. I use it for my business primarily which is interior design. My photos are automatically uploaded and then I organized them into folders according to my jobs. I used these with my clients to view the rooms we are working on, and can share the folders with them as we work. We also used it to easily share hundreds of photos with our website design team. Up until now, it has been a very powerful tool.
Now, that you have deleted all of my albums, and only show a screen of tiny thumbnails (with no ability to make them large enough to view), I have lost several hundred hours of time and money. Your "solution" of downloading each of my albums to a zip file onto my computer is worthless. Why even use dropbox if I can't easily access my photos? If I wanted to download all my photos to my computer, I would just sync with my phone.
If Dropbox does not allow me to regain access to my photos other than useless little thumbnails in no particuliar order, then I will need to find an alternative cloud source. What a shame. Until now, I have recommended Dropbox to everyone I know.
- Rich
Super User II
JunHill850B wrote:
My photos are automatically uploaded and then I organized them into folders according to my jobs.
Which you can still do.
I used these with my clients to view the rooms we are working on, and can share the folders with them as we work. We also used it to easily share hundreds of photos with our website design team.The folders you place your photos in can still be shared.
... and only show a screen of tiny thumbnails (with no ability to make them large enough to view)Change the display from list view to grid view.
Grid View in a shared folderGrid View in your own account
- Came back to see if they had pulled the trigger yet, and they sure have. The new Photos 'app'/page is completely useless. Its an unresponsive turd with 0 functionality. Why even bother having it? I'm very much vindicated in cancelling my Dropbox subscription now.
"https://www.cultofmac.com/216665/a-tour-of-dropboxs-amazing-new-albums-feature/" << They should do a follow up.
I hear a lot of people talking about Dropbox focusing on tacking the Enterprise market, they've got no chance. Every enterprise worth knowing about is getting storage services from MS, Google, etc. It comes built into other software offerings. Why pay for Dropbox when you are already spending money that offer the same service with much more already?
Dropbox differentiated itself from its competitors by having a better product...now, well now they have nothing worth knowing about. I will sit back eating popcorn over the next few years and watch Dropbox circle the drain on its way to complete obscurity.Well folks, it took me over a week to deal with reorganizing, downloading and uploading, and storing all my files in Google Drive and Google Photos---hunched over a computer even longer hours than I usually do. And guess what? As much as it was a pain in the ass and I was furious at the idiocy of how Dropbox handled this unresponsive turd of a Photos page (to use the phrase of the last user who posted here), I am SO GLAD I have moved all my stuff. The Google Photos platform is so easy to use, beautiful and full of smart features. Let this encourage you: Just get out. It's worth the annoyance and mind-numbing work it will take to move all of those files.
I've already downgraded my subscription so that the payment won't renew. I've moved on to greener pastures, and left the dark ages of Dropbox.
Good luck to all of you!
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