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Enable searching EXIF metadata on website and mobile apps

Enable searching EXIF metadata on website and mobile apps

Stig N.1
New member | Level 1

Hi Dropbox and Carousel team,

I have been a faithful and long time user of both Dropbox and Carousel, but have recently switched to Microsoft OneDrive as my Cloud Drive provider. What I have experienced is that in some ways the Office Online integration is better than with DropBox, but apart from that, the hole experience is not as I have come to expect as when I was using Dropbox. But since I have got 1 TB for free, work, I would need new features from you guys at Dropbox, to make me return 🙂 ... and now back to my enhancement / feature request for Dropbox and Carousel, for both Apps and Website.

Please enable EXIF photo data search in the Carousel App, and hereafter on website as well 🙂 !!

I guess it would be a matter of extending the already implemented full text search in dropbox for include EXIF information. This would enable users of Dropbox, and specifically users of Carousel to be able to search on photos taken on a specific location, GPS tag, or date/year, or folder/album name.

Fellow Dropbox users, please vote on this enhancement request ! 🙂

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Walter
Dropbox Staff
This idea has been closed as it has reached the end of the Share an Idea process.
 
Thank you for your suggestion, and if you have another idea to share, please do! 
Status changed to: Closed
36 Comments
Jane
Dropbox Staff
Thanks for reaching back out to me on this discussion to share your interest on this functionality Mark (@marks57)!
 
You may keep in mind that I’ve moved your thread under the Share an Idea” section on our Community, since it’s being monitored by our team specialists & your contribution is taken into consideration for future feature implementation. 
 
I hope that other users find this idea useful too & they upvote your comments here. Of course, our Forum Wall is always open to your feedback or questions, so feel free to drop us a line here; we’re just a post away. Take care until we talk again Mark! 
sabinsc
Explorer | Level 4

Just uploaded my photos via the camera uploader.

Without metadata it makes no sense 😢 at all. 

Please integrate the EXIF-infos: I need infos about the camera, aperture, shutter, time, geoTag etc. 

jacphoto
Helpful | Level 5

Dropbox is not currently geared to support activities using many pictures.

Functions to store, organize and share many files are there but if those files are photos some key features are missing:

Capability to search not only on file and directory names but as well on metadata content (exif, iptc and xmp data), this should include at least title or caption, description, date picture taken (not the date the file was created or modified), and tags. This is available in Windows explorer and Google Drive.

Capability to view the content of some or all of the metadata fields when required. Capability to edit them would be a plus but less required in my opinion, dedicated applications exist for that. This is available in Windows explorer and in Google Photos when displaying Google Drive Pictures.

Capability to view along with the picture displayed some key metadata information like the date the picture was taken and title.

I have seen that such features have been asked for by users in the past and that the answer has been that the request will be submitted to the development teams. Nothing seemed to happen after that.

So I am wondering if Dropbox can be used soon in a picture oriented activity or if this is not and will not be in the near future in the scope of Dropbox and as a consequence it is wiser to plan using another cloud service for this type of activity.

Any plan to improve that?

Lusil
Dropbox Staff
Hi @jacphoto, thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts with us! Much appreciated. 
 
I’ve forwarded your comments with the dev team for future consideration and also moved your post to the Share an idea section of the Community in order to keep track of it. 
 
If you have any other questions or comments for us, don’t hesitate to give us a nudge. Cheers!
mlourier
New member | Level 2
Is there any progress with this Idea?
mbill2020
Explorer | Level 3

Any plans to add this functionality to dropbox?  I'm in a similar situation - love using Dropbox to back up photos, but now find it hard to organize them.  

jacphoto
Helpful | Level 5
Google drive paired with Google photo does a better job on that although it is not yet at the level expected to support a serious photo oriented activity.
plattis
Explorer | Level 3

Let me chime in here and support this request. I am a long time paying customer with > 30000 photos on DropBox. Metadata search (especially IPTC) is sorely missing! i now have to rely on third party solutions to search through my files. Please implement this!

mholzbauer
Explorer | Level 3

Recently I have lost access to physical drives and had the need to search for images using the tags / captions in Dropbox in an emergency situation (because that's when you need a backup solution to come through for you, right?) Am a longtime paying customer and just assumed that this basic functionality that exists in every other system would allow searching of metadata somehow.  Bad assumption.  Please implement basic metadata / EXIF data search.  This follows in a string of disappointments when it comes to managing and even just viewing photos in Dropbox. You guys have to step up your photo management game.  

Nad Noselrub
New member | Level 2

I am copying my TB of photos to OneDrive now, I'll report if they handle EXIF / Metadata better than DrobBox.

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33 votes received Status: Closed