selective sync on ipad?

Laureline,

If I read you correctly above you said my issue was about a "way of better organising favorites and to download / unfavorite them locally in bulk".  This is not what I am asking for. I probably did not explain it clearly enough.

The main point of my request is that I want to add and organise into folders some photos locally on my iPad that have never been on my computer (rather they have just been transferred from my camera to my iPad). Then at a later date synch just those new folders back to my computer at a later date.

This is just how selective synch currently works on every machine. I just want it to work like that on my iPad. You don't need to invent any more features. Just be consistent about the implementation of the features you already have created. 

I don't see the point of having a favourites feature since you can accomplish the same thing by putting the files you want on your iPad into a separate folder and then simply selectively synch that folder. Adding a new feature to accomplish that (favourites) only serves to increase the cognitive overload in using Dropbox.

The great thing and selling point about Dropbox (before you started adding features I might add, was its extremely simple operation and focused functionality (and as a result an extremely low cognitive overload = high degree of usability). Since dropbox's initial concept is so simple, adding that favourites feature was a big percentage increase in cognitive overload, and correspondingly large percentage decrease in usability). If you can use the existing feature (selective synch) to perform some function, it does not make any sense to add a new feature to do a similar task. I am referencing the work of Jakob Nielsen here on User Interface Design: see http://www.nngroup.com/articles/minimize-cognitive-load/. His research into User Interface design is very relevant to your development plans.

Thanks for listening to our input.

Barry

You can other tools to selectively sync photos from computer onto iPad. There are a lot on Google, you can search it and have a try!

If Dropbox files are not saved on mobile devices, why does my phone says Dropbox is taking up 10GB of space? Thanks

If Dropbox files are not saved on mobile devices, why does my phone says Dropbox is taking up 10GB of space?

Not saved permanently... Files you access on the device will be cached temporarily, and any files you mark as available offline will be stored for as long as they are marked that way.

Desperatley need folder syncing for ios. When you have large folder strutures full of lots of files it is impossible to manage by having to find new files and make them available offline.

please fix this :( 

In our organization, we use one Dropbox account for all our people. Each user has their own designated folder for their work. It would be extremely useful to have folder sync on mobile devices so that people don't have to search through a mess of files and photos just to find what they need.

Folder sync would on mobile would enable Dropbox to be used in an organized and professional way, and would make an okay sharing tool into a powerful tool-set. Dropbox makes sharing and group collaboration very easy and fluid, people love it because of that. It seems somewhat backwards to be pushed to switch to more complicated software just to make something else easier. 

Hi

ios photos app allow organising your photos in to albums

id like to be able to select only certain albums for Dropbox upload 

possible ?

So no solution yet? If we have lots of pdf's, images etc we have to manually synch each one of them on our iPads and then try to find them in a big list of shortened file names with no organization or structure whatsoever?

I really think dropbox should provide a better functionality on this subject.

The way it is does not seem to meet Dropbox standards.

I am using Documents by Readdle until DropBox can get this sorted out. It works, but is unecessarily time consuming. I can have two-way selective synchronisation with a folder just like I can do with DropBox on all my other devices. I am synching all my travel related Drobbox folders with my iPhone and iPad in this way. 

However I cannot for the life of me understand why Dropbox is forcing me to use such a convoluted approach and have to use a third-party app to do what should logically be done inside of the Dropbox app. It is completely inconsistent.  They seem such a good company otherwise.

Please get to work on this Dropbox and make the app work  consistently with how Dropbox works on all my other computers. I don't want to be forced to cancel my DropbBox account and use iCloud!!

Old thread but I'm also going to point out that despite not using storage on the iPad, tablets are typically used by everyone in a given household. In my case, I'd prefer that my work-related files, my banking info and other personal data not be available to all users. There's always the off-chance that they might delete one of them or that there may be some information in one of the files that I want kept private. Selective sync isn't just useful for storage issues. I just upgraded today to Dropbox Pro and I'm deeply disappointed that this feature doesn't exist for iOS. I'm going to have to remove the app from my family iPad until the feature is available.