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@comfort, @Heavypen, @Richard O.3, @cibomahto, @deibiddochan, @Rojabella, along with others that have shared their views on the subject. You have my thanks. It’s very reassuring to know I’m not alone on this. While there are great people that work on and support DB that’s not enough for me to put up with all those DB Business ads. Why should I? I simply cancelled my DB Pro membership in 2016 and ever since I’ve enjoyed using a Free DB account. Other services have long since replaced everything I was using my DB Pro account for. Thankfully for me, using DB is a choice. I don’t have to use it. So I don't. There’s several other services that I use to make backups and sync my data between devices along with a number of other features. Some features still aren’t available in DB anyways. While the total price for all those other services combined are more than the cost of just using DB Pro, I don’t much care. If price was the only thing I cared about I wouldn't have bothered upgrading to DB Pro in the first place.  I found a way to escape the digital onslaught of DB Business ads. It’s easy - I just stopped using (and paying for) DB. So from time to time when I want to use my DB Free account for something, it’s no problem if I see an ad. Because I’m usually finished in a few minutes and I’m not actually paying for the DB service anyways. That’s fair. ... View more

@Heavypen and @comfort. Thanks for letting everyone know how you feel about this issue. I suspected it wasn't just me. I feel bad that your exceptionally high standards of quality and professionalism for what you do is lessened by the overall negative impression those forced Dropbox ads impose upon your clients. I hope you're both well and wish you good fortune. @Walter - Thanks for your replies. My following comments aren't in any way personal and are not meant to lessen the great positive experience I've enjoyed exploring the Dropbox service and community. I hope Ed, you and the rest of the Dropbox team are well and wish you good fortune.   To Dropbox Decision Makers When I posted this topic in 2016 I described those Dropbox Business ads as "not a deal breaker. But it's still annoying." That quickly escalated from annoying to an absolute deal breaker. I realized regardless of what individual Dropbox plan I had and no matter how expensive it was you'd still force feed me constant annoying Dropbox Business ads whenever I used your service. So I cancelled my Dropbox Pro membership in mid 2016. Yes, for that Business ads reason alone. I'm not kidding. Please let that sink in. It wasn't because of the price of your plans or the features (or lack thereof) you provided. You gave me the only reason I needed on a silver platter. There's no option to disable those annoying Business ads. In other words, decision makers at Dropbox, you lost me as a paying customer back in 2016 because I solved my problem without your dev team having to do a thing. I no longer had to put up with those insanely annoying Dropbox Business ads because I just stopped using Dropbox. Problem solved! Since then I seldom use my free Dropbox account. Once or twice I upgraded to Pro for a single month to complete a task and switched right back to free. Which means for just over two years the company lost between $250 to $400 I would have happily paid to keep using Dropbox Pro nonstop. The company will lose at least triple that amount over the next few years because I've no intention, whatsoever, on ever having a Dropbox paid account. In case you're still not getting the concept, you Dropbox Decision Makers, you're effectively treating your paid DB Plus and Pro paying customers exactly like the FREE version customers who are always getting ads to upgrade to a paid version. Your Dropbox Plus and Pro paying customers always get Business ads - no matter what. They're constantly reminded every time they access your website (to do anything) that instead of flying coach they should pay to upgrade to First Class. Instead of being a lowly individual they should be a business. Doesn't matter if most of those Business class features are useless to individuals, your website keeps hammering away at users every single darn time they access it to do anything. After encountering those Business ads so many times it becomes insulting. Insulting enough for me to cancel my DB Pro account and not bother putting up with it any longer. I'll enjoy getting on another airline that welcomes me to flying coach without going out of their way to mention they even have a First Class.  These are the airlines that are happy to have me paying to be on their flights in the first place.  Rather than the FREE equivalent of trying to be a stowaway. There's nothing wrong with every now and then sending out an email or other notice about Business features or sales, etc. Yet spamming that in the actual website interface when paying customers access it to do anything - that's annoying and for me a deal breaker. I'm curious, are you mass spamming Dropbox Plus and Pro ads to your Business accounts? You know, like do you pester the living daylights out of your Business account users just in case they may use or know someone who could use a Dropbox individual class account? Let me guess, that would be really annoying, right? They would already have the specific type of account that they want to use with Dropbox, right? Since they're already paying it would be easy for them to manage their account and change to a different type, right? It's still the start of the new year, 2019, and as I seldom use my free Dropbox account I figured to check in on things and noticed this topic. And apparently since my deal breaker still isn't fixed I saved myself suitable amounts of grief, time and money. Rather than waste the past 2 plus years hoping you would add the option to disable those annoying Business ads. Again, you don't have to fix it. I fixed it myself, which is best for me. Should you ever provide an option to disable Business ads maybe I'll care. I'm not waiting for it to happen. I only wonder how many DB Plus and Pro paying customer you have that feel the same way some of us do. And in that case, they're leaving when they've had enough, just like I did. If you simply added one option many of us would never have left. Just something to consider. ... View more

My pleasure to offer a workaround as the others did. I know it doesn't actually provide a real solid solution. I share your pain. As for the basic functionality requiring extra effort and workarounds I also agree with you. For the most part, at least for now, I just put up with it. ... View more

I hear you, Brad. It seems there isn't a direct built-in Dropbox feature for it right now. If there is I'm happy for someone to point out what I'm missing. As for a work around, if you're using a Mac I humbly suggest my solution: Name Mangler. If you're using Windows (or just don't like Name Mangler) then a third party batch naming software should do the trick. Then you could upload all the photos you want accordingly from each device you use. Then, once at the desktop, drag and drop whatever photos you want into the renaming program and it will sequence and/or rename them accordingly. For me it takes seconds to rename hundreds/thousands of photos that keeps me relatively sane. Yes, not the same as a great built-in feature of Dropbox but right now it's my work around. Hope this helps.   ... View more

Thanks, Rich R! I also submitted a support ticket along with a link to this topic, as suggested. I appreciate your help. ... View more