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Rei3e
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

There's a change in the way files preview with grey boxes around.

Hi there! Dropbox recently updated the preview image experience and there is now grey shadow boxed around all of the image previews. Unfortunately, for individuals such as myself who have to cull thr...
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Rei3e
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

Thank you simonDBX! I am still working through this issue daily. I look forward to a solution to help us all affected by this. 😍

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simonDBX
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3 years ago

Hi Rei3e - we're working on a longer term solution to give users more control over the size of the tiles. But in the short term, would it be helpful if the size of the tiles was overall larger? More similar in size to what they were previously in the large grid view?

  • Tyto's avatar
    Tyto
    Helpful | Level 6
    3 years ago

    Yes, that would be helpful! The image previews used to fill the entire tile, now half of the space is wasted by this gray box frame.

    The image previews should be as large as they used to be in the "Large Grid" view, any solution would be appreciated!

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    Durran684
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago
    I’m very confused, 6 months ago you implied you were working to fix this. Now in March my phone auto updated to have this issue on my Dropbox and I have to work through hundreds of images/videos a week and severely messed up my workflow. Is there anyway to revert? Changing the grid options does nothing and changing to list still messes with work flow

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