Enable searching EXIF metadata on website and mobile apps

[Stig N.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 ! 🙂

[Walter]

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[Walter]

*Drumroll*

Your idea has been delivered! 

You can find out more about our image search feature here.

Thanks for sharing your suggestions with us, and as always, we'd love to hear any more ideas you have!

[jacphoto]

Does not seem to implement search on photo metadata fields (exif and iptc). I have tried to search on a word included in the title or decription of some photos with no result, same problem with other exif fields like Model.

So whether it is not implmented yet or not accessible to me or not implementeting what was requested.

The link provided does not give any detail about which data is included in the serch.

Can you help ?

[Walter]

Hey @jacphoto - thanks for your feedback on this!

I just wanted to give you an update as you should be able to find more information about the data that's included in your search in this Help Center article. 

I hope this helps!

[Diarmuid]

YES YES 100% YES. Why is this very obvious feature not being implemented??

I have seen it asked multiple times on different forums but no move from Dropbox. 

Please make it happen, Dropbox.

[jacphoto]

Hi Walter,

The search features documented in the link in your message seems to be a great step forward in the direction photographers and image users were expecting.

What is too bad is that I cannot test and use it because I do not have a pro account, why not allowing that on all type of accounts.

As long as I am concerned I have no incentive to move to a pro account because it is impossible to synch data located on different physical drives, the additional space is therefore less usefull and in addition, if I understand correctly, the search feature based on image metadata is not implemented in the Android application where I would need it as well when trying to locate images on the move.

Regards

[Walter]

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