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This is like vacuuming your house or office. Do you guys go without it for years on end? It's hard to believe this critical and essential feature does not exist. I currently have multiple folders that can be merged easily on windows, but not on Dropbox. One thing the Dropbox developers have to understand is that business accounts have larger amount of files on Dropbox than on their systems, and because of the painful speed of upload and download and the limitation of files that can be transferred at once (3000 files), it is not possible to do this on the desktop side. So there has to be a house cleaning tool that allows for maintenance and merging of duplicate folders and files. You can even find this on your phone these days. It is hard to imagine Dropbox for business customers do not have this option.
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As a user with much more space in Dropbox than I have locally, I would greatly appreciate an online feature to find duplicate media files without downloading them all, for ongoing housekeeping purposes.
1. Find duplicate files
2. Compressing function for photos and video online
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- Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hi there MDiaz; thanks for posting your idea!
I just merged your post under this thread as it echoes the feature request of the OP.
Whenever you get the chance, feel free to take a look and upvote it by giving it a like to show your interest.
Take care and see you around the Community!
Why doesn't Dropbox offer a way to locate and remove duplicates?!? Imagine having all of your files and folders taking up less space and being more organized, are you with me?
- DaphneStatus added:Open
This idea is going to need a bit more support.
We've updated the status to encourage more users to back you up!
In this case I would recommend to try DuplicateFilesDeleter.
Everyone's all about this "Unclouded" app that's out - unfortunately for Android only, but there are some interesting alternatives in the comments section of this article: http://lifehacker.com/unclouded-sorts-google-drive-and-dropbox-by-size-categ-1613491689
- Mark
Super User II
albina - not sure what your issue is (you've not said anything), however, please dont hijack other threads. Please start a new one.
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and verify that the file location is correct.- Mark
Apologies. I didnt mean to come across as dismissive. I still cant see a need for it, however, even with your additional info.
I would appreciate a response from Dropbox staff.
You won't get one I'm afraid. This is a user supported forum. However, by posting here it will be passed to the appropriate teams.