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Face Recognition for Smarter Photo Management
Dropbox needs a built-in face recognition feature to make managing large photo libraries far more efficient. Similar to the Photos app on iPhone, this would automatically group images by people, making it easy to locate and organise photos without having to manually tag or browse through thousands of files. For users with extensive collections, this functionality is not just convenient — it’s essential. At present, finding specific images in Dropbox can be frustrating and time-consuming, which reduces the value of the platform as a reliable photo storage and organisation tool. Adding face recognition would align Dropbox with modern standards of photo management, greatly improving usability, saving customers hours of manual work, and making Dropbox an even more compelling alternative to device-based photo apps
Keep photos added to the Family Room out of the Photo tab.
I just upgraded to a family account with the idea that I could categorize our photos in different folders “Christmas Photos”, “Family Photos”, each kid with photos from over the years, etc. the expectation was that the family go could into any folder and find photos they want to download or share with extended family/friends. They could do that, but the probably was ALL the photos go into everyone’s Photo Tab. What felt like my kids’ private photo backup area was now cluttered with thousands of photos, so I’m having to keep the categorized photos in my own drive and just share with my wife. All that to say it would be awesome to have the option to exclude photos added to the Family Room from the Photo Tab.Images moved from Macbook to Dropbox folders not showing thumbnails and not opening
I have a dropbox family account of which I am the owner. All the images I have moved from my macbook pro to dropbox folders show the thumbnails and open on double clicking when I first add them. However, when I go back to the folders a short time later, the thumbnail image no longer shows and I have to right click to choose preview to open them (even though it is set as default to open). The images have a cloud images next to them and show zero bytes. If I edit them from dropbox the thumbnail appears again and opens ok. It is a pain having to open every image to see what the thumbnail is and is making my workflow much longer. I have gone into 'get info' and set preview to open all files of this type but it doesnt seem to make any difference. Dropbox is still at the top of the 'ope with' list when I right click the image to open it. Help please. I am in my sixties and not particularly technology savvy although manage just fine unless its technical.
Missing updated data files
I am the only user of my dropbox account. I have lots of excel spreadsheets and the one spreadsheet I have been working on for months. Going into it daily and adding my data and research. I have not been in the file for since the beginning of the year and went into it again a few days ago. All my research is gone. I have had two people look at my Dropbox and cannot find my old files. Any solutions to recover everything as my boss has requested it and will no doubt get fired.
Dropbox Paper Error 404
I often use .paper files for taking notes and tracking the progress of tasks with checkboxes on my work team. I'm using Windows 11 with the latest version of the Dropbox app (175.4.5569 at the time of writing). Every time I open a .paper file from my file explorer, it opens a tab in my browser that reads "Error (404) We can't find the page you're looking for." The URL also switches to https://www.dropbox.com/desktop_login. If I check the Dropbox icon in my task bar, I'm still logged in to the app. I can open the same exact .paper files from the Dropbox folder structure in my browser with no problems. This has been my temporary workaround, but the problem is still annoying and inconvenient. My boss, who uses a macOS, doesn't have this problem. I've tried logging out and logging back in and uninstalling and reinstalling the program with no success. Hyperlinks with the URL to the .paper file don't work either. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks
