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A visual tree map for smarter storage management of a Dropbox folder structure
We often need to know what our Dropbox space is being used by. What if we could see it, visually and intuitively? I’m proposing a new Dropbox feature inspired by tools like SpaceMonger: a visual storage map that shows your entire Dropbox as a treemap of nested rectangles, each one sized in proportion to the space it consumes. Folders would be represented as boxes within boxes, giving you an immediate sense of which areas are taking up the most room.
This bird’s-eye view would make it dramatically easier to identify storage hogs, clean up unneeded files, and make informed decisions about organizing or upgrading your storage. Integrated directly into the Dropbox web interface, it would be a natural, powerful addition for users who care about managing space efficiently, whether you're close to your storage limit or just trying to be informed and strategic on how you use it.
Of course, the particulars of the UI/UX could be debated by your experts, but the gist is that an intuitive visual representation of our subscriptions' allocated space and how it is being used would be a tremendous addition to the platform.
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4 Comments
I feel like I should add that it would be perfectly acceptable for this to be an offline process where you request the visual to be generated and then wait for some kind of notification to come when it's ready. The image could even be saved into one's account, optionally, or kept available for download, but perhaps a limit would be placed on how often one can generate this view, if it proves to be too intense to allow unfettered access to.
- Nancy
Dropbox Community Moderator
Thanks for posting your idea here, Turmeric Eric!
Due to security reasons, we don’t usually accommodate external links on the forum, so I’ve removed your link from the post.
Is it possible to post the image you had linked directly in this thread perhaps, so that we can have a reference?
Let me know.
Funny... I assumed by the lack of image controls on the post editor, but the inclusion of link controls, that embedding images was not possible, but inclusion of links was fine! I didn't even try simply pasting the image. Here it is. I hope it helps. It's just an example of what SpaceMonger shows when run against a drive. In the case of Dropbox, of course, the top-level rectangle would simply be one's account.
- HannahStatus changed:NewtoGathering Support
Hey Turmeric Eric, thanks for clarifying!
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