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logicnet's avatar
logicnet
Explorer | Level 3
11 days ago
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Hide folders from Photos tab

I have a lot of photos in my Dropbox, both edited and raw/unedited files. It would be great with the possibility to hide certain folders from the Photos tab so that e.g. all of the unedited raw files doesn't show up in between the final versions. Also, this would allow hiding folders with other image files that you don't want in your photo collection. 

This could either be some right-click folder property, or it could be done by adding e.g. a  .dropboxhidephotos file to the folder. 

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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
    8 days ago
    logicnet wrote:

    It would be great with the possibility to hide certain folders from the Photos tab so that e.g. all of the unedited raw files doesn't show up ...

    You used to be able to do this, through the Carousel app, but they eliminated the app and the ability to hide folders from the Photos tab nearly 10 years ago. The comment at the time was that the features in Carousel would, over time, be added into the core product, but that never happened.

    Here's hoping that changes, but I doubt it. Aside from photos, my Dropbox is filled with thousands of JPG and PNG files from my Photoshop work, which fill up the Photos tab and make it completely useless. Aside from the fact that it's littered with samples and iterations of that work, due to the number of images displayed it takes about 5 minutes if I want to open a file in preview.

    When Dropbox eliminated Carousel they eliminated the only good part of the photo experience in Dropbox.