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Ipad and Iphone viewing of long file names
Our company is having the issue that on the mobile app (using the ipad or iphone) often times the file name is too long to properly view what we are opening. I want to be able to read the entire file name so I know what i am opening since many of the beginning and last parts of the file are exactly the same for filing purposes so I want to be able to view the file name without having to open each one in order to find out. I'm hoping I make sense. Is there something I'm missing where I'm able to do this? I can't "right click" on the file name cause I'm mobile otherwise I would try that 🙂
Well, bugger me, Dropbox has finally fixed this with the latest update. I thought to re-check this today after the latest change, and straight away could see the filenames are displayed differently. The font is smaller, and the filename is truncated in the middle, so I can read the start of the file name, but also the end which is (with my file-naming convention), typically the differentiator. But the kicker is what happens with the display pane. It is now possible to close that — there’s a small “x” in the top left corner of the display/preview pane — and once that closes, the left pane with the file names expands to full screen view! And voila! I can now see the full long file names. Dropbox: THAT is the way to take advantage of the larger screen on an iPad, especially the 12.9” model. I’m still annoyed it took so long to remedy, but thank you for finally doing it.
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- And you don’t get the native integration with office documents you do in the dropbox app (open and edit in office from dropbox).
Yes please, fix this as a top priority, you will loose people if its not fixed.
At the moment Files doesn’t solve the problem as the DropBox integration in the Public Beta 2 only opens an even smaller window in the middle of the screen for you to choose your file.
This is may be a restriction of it being a Beta, but the Files app has the same narrow left -hand navigation area as the Dropbox app so even the finished version may not solve the issue entirely (although would be an improvement as the screen real estate on the right is wider)
another point i would would make is that the Google Drive iPad app was updated a few months ago and they reduced the size of the file names area so that they now truncate !!
as far as I can see, only the Amazon Dive app now natively uses the entire width of the screen on an iPad, but I had multiple sync problems with Amazon Drive and had to stop using it.
I agree. This is beyond frustrating. I work in the media industry where files often start with fixed patterns associated with a date or client. I have hundreds of files in a folder that appear the same in the iPad app making the app impossible to use.
Did you ever get an answer or solution to this problem? I find this a problem as well.
Thank you.
I didn't. I downloaded Readdle Document6 and it provides a better interface for viewing, but it's not got the same level of integration. I currently use Readdle to roughly locate the file in a list and then return to Dropbox to launch the associated app. It's pants, but it works. It seems that iOS11 may have some magic solution. I am not going to hold my breath....
Do you like Google Drive? I am thinking of moving our company away from Dropbox because of this issue.
Google Drive worked fine from a sync point of view - not quite as fast as Dropbox, which really can't be beaten by any of the other services I've tried in terms of sync speed and reliability.
As I wrote in my earier post, however, it no longer solves the long filenames issue as they "improved it out" of their app (unless of course they've changed it back over the last couple of months
I would suggest to try "Long Path Tool" program.
Why has this not been addressed yet? I found many threads going back years complaining about being able to read long file names in the ipad app.
Our organizational system / business requires long-ish file names most of which start and end the same way on any given project.
There really should be a way to view the whole file name. Maybe add an option to close the preview pane?
