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Thijxx
Helpful | Level 6
10 months ago

Website Photos view is slow

Howdy, viewing photo's on the Dropbox website is painfully slow. Is there a way to get better performance from the Dropbox website when viewing photos? When I use the profiler in Firefox I can see th...
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Thijxx
Helpful | Level 6
10 months ago

Other folders load fine except the photo preview at the top of the page called 'Suggested from your activity'

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Walter
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10 months ago

I see, thanks for clarifying that for me Thijxx 

 

May I ask approximately how many photos you've stored in your Dropbox account? 

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    Thijxx
    Helpful | Level 6
    10 months ago

    Oof, that is a hard question! I suppose somewhere around 50K

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      Nancy
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      10 months ago

      Hey @Thijxx, hope it’s OK to jump in. Since the number of photos is quite large, this may be the issue here. 

       

      However, when did this start? Is this something that started only recently or has the issue been going on for a while now?

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        Thijxx
        Helpful | Level 6
        10 months ago

        It has been this way since I can remember. If you want I can take a look at how many photo's are cached but I guess not many because when I scroll down a bit, it needs to load for about 10 seconds 😂 and this makes it impossible to casually browse my photo's.

        If I have 2 million photo's or 2000, loading the first 50 should always perform more or less the same, right?

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