Hi Everybody, The beta for Collections will close on July 11. If you were included in the beta, your content within Collections is still accessible in its original folder or under “Collection uploads” in your personal folder. Any shared links will continue to be accessible for an additional four weeks and shut off on July 11. We thank you for participating in the Collections beta. Your support and feedback have helped us fix issues and improve Dropbox products for all our users. Regards, Ben

How do i know if i am part of the sunsetting collection? or collection bata?

I shall be very sorry to see the "Collections" option close on July 11. Is any consideration being given to extending/reinstating the facility, perhaps as an additional paid option?Best Wishes,Ken Syme

Hi Everybody, Thanks for your input here. I will clarify for users who are not part of the Collections beta. Collections is a beta that allows users to compile boards of documents, files, photos, etc. Laetitia Keyrouz if you are part of the beta, you would see it on the navigation bar on the left hand side of your Dropbox when you log in, as in the image below. Marisa D.1 This will not affect the ability to place Dropbox in your favorites bar. kenmagyar Making the decision to sunset collections was a difficult one. We had to take quite a few internal and external factors into consideration. There are no current plans to reinstate collections. Regards, Ben

This is incredibly disappointing. Being able to create a collection of videos without moving or duplicating the original video has been incredibly valuable. This feature has become standardized in our procedures, and we may have to change providers if we lose this option. Please let me know what you'll be implementing to replace this feature, or how we can continue to use collections, whether its a paid add on, or we are grandfathered into it as Beta users.

Ben, Like others on this thread, I am disappointed to see features like Collections go. It seems that Dropbox invests time and enegery into many enhancements and to get users to use them in place of other functionality suche as "Starred". I actually didn't have a need for Collections, until Starred disappeared. Then when I actually needed to find one of my Starred documents which I starred so that I could easily find them (isn't that the purpose???) I couldn't find them. I do think that Collections would have been an awesome way of categorizing documents in a way that makes sense without using links to documents in folders, though I never had a chance to really use it until it's about to disappear. My recent engagements with technology vendors, especially with Dropbox lately, have been far from satisfactory. I suppose that's the future and I welcome further discussion.

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Laetitia Keyrouz
New member | Level 2
3 years ago
How do i know if i am part of the sunsetting collection? or collection bata?
kenmagyar
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago
I shall be very sorry to see the "Collections" option close on July 11. Is any consideration being given to extending/reinstating the facility, perhaps as an additional paid option?
Best Wishes,
Ken Syme
Marisa D.1
New member | Level 2
3 years ago
This is a nightmare, I can't have Dropbox in my favourites bar on my Mac now?
BenDBX
Community Manager
3 years ago
Hi Everybody,

Thanks for your input here. I will clarify for users who are not part of the Collections beta.

Collections is a beta that allows users to compile boards of documents, files, photos, etc. Laetitia Keyrouz if you are part of the beta, you would see it on the navigation bar on the left hand side of your Dropbox when you log in, as in the image below.

Marisa D.1 This will not affect the ability to place Dropbox in your favorites bar.

kenmagyar Making the decision to sunset collections was a difficult one. We had to take quite a few internal and external factors into consideration. There are no current plans to reinstate collections.

Regards,

Ben
Kandg
Helpful | Level 7
3 years ago
How do I get my Starred folder back in the side menu where Collections is? Since that change I can't get that option back in my side menu that is much more convenient then going to Home everytime.
Janasya
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago
Hi,

I don't understand the message, Is it means my drobox plan will be expired soon?
Marisa D.1
New member | Level 2
3 years ago
Ben I was advised clearly by Dropbox not to move the folder from the Cloud Storage folder to the Favourites Bar (Apple Mac), can you confirm I CAN do this please? Does it move it, or duplicate it? Does it update both folders if it's duplicated?
michael_henry
New member | Level 2
3 years ago
Excellent comment as I am playing with the thought of giving up my flickr account, as I can manouver better within dropbox and the replay options are similar.
kenmagyar
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago
Thanks Ben for the update: I hope you've had lots of positive feedback on the Collections option for Dropbox, and will be encouraged to revisit it in the near future, Ken
DashMedia
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago
This is incredibly disappointing. Being able to create a collection of videos without moving or duplicating the original video has been incredibly valuable. This feature has become standardized in our procedures, and we may have to change providers if we lose this option. Please let me know what you'll be implementing to replace this feature, or how we can continue to use collections, whether its a paid add on, or we are grandfathered into it as Beta users.