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Delanoble
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

The ascending/descending sorting applies for all subfolders and not just a single folder

Hi!

Dropbox used to have ordering per folder. So its ascending or decending per folder which was perfect. 

Now its ascending or decending on all folders.

Working with numbers and catalogue where I need to have names first sometimes and other times need highest numbers this works very counter productive. 

So is there a way to fix this? swapping all day between ordering is very annoying.

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  • Nancy's avatar
    Nancy
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    2 years ago

    Hey Delanoble, thanks for your post.

     

    Can you provide a couple of screenshots perhaps showing exactly what you see now and clarify what you were seeing before? Here’s the button to upload your screenshot (if there are any folder names you don’t wish to be seen publicly, make sure to mask them first): 

     

     

    I’d also like to know if you’re seeing this behavior on all Dropbox platforms or a specific one. 

     

    Keep me in the loop.

  • Delanoble's avatar
    Delanoble
    Explorer | Level 3
    2 years ago

    Screenshots will not help and im not trying to hide folders.

     

    Let me explain again:

    Before: Every folder had its own sorting with name ascending or descending. So I could get set everything as I wanted and it kept that. 

     

    Now: If you apply the sorting it will put it on ALL folders and sub folders. So whole dropbox and all folders and subfolders and items will be ascending or descending. 

     

    This is annoying and I want ascending or descending per folder back that. That is how it worked before... 

  • Nancy's avatar
    Nancy
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    2 years ago

    Thanks for clarifying, Delanoble. I’ve logged your feedback with our team. This way, they can see your comments here and take this into account for the future.

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