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The Photos page is changing...
I've just seen the banner that says "The Photos page is changing on 30 June 2017 but your pictures will stay safe in your Dropbox account. Learn more". The gist is that they are removing the final re...
Hi everyone,
Thanks again for your continued feedback on our upcoming changes.
I wanted to let you know that we've heard your concerns about how difficult it is to preserve your album structures in Dropbox. Our engineers have created a simple album export tool to help make this process easier. It's available starting today at the following URL:
www.dropbox.com/photos/album_download
The tool will allow you to download your albums to your desktop as .zip files. Please note that you'll be downloading a new copy of your photos, not moving them, so the photos will still exist in your Dropbox in the original location you saved them.We hope this tool will help alleviate some of the frustration that some of you have reported in this thread. If you have any problems using the tool, feel free to contact us via www.dropbox.com/support.
Regards,
Richard
Have you ever noticed that when you delete the file of a photograph that is contained in more than one photo album, the image disappears, by design, from each album? This implies that the file is stored only once by Dropbox, and that "pointers" to it are contained in each photo album.
I'm not sure if anyone has pointed out yet that keeping photos organized in multiple folders (as Dropbox proposes to do after June 30), rather than in albums, has the benefit to Dropbox of consuming more storage space.
That is, if you have a single 5MB photo file displayed in five different albums under the current setup, only 5MB of total storage space is used. When you "migrate" those five albums to the new setup, display of that photo in five separate folders will require 5 x 5MB = 25MB of storage.
I hope someone from Dropbox will correct me if I'm wrong here, but one has to at least wonder whether the goal of selling more storage capacity is related to the announced features change.
It's true that the albums are simply a system of visual bookmarks.
It's a good question...why add the bloat of unnecessary file duplication?
It's a good question...why add the bloat of unnecessary file duplication?
Dropbox is killing cosumer grade services it seems.
They are only making significat profit on Bussines suite and don't really care about services that are not used by large customers.
Too bad, I guess Google Drive and Google Photos is the way to go if you want decent photos support.
cheers
I disagree, since I use the dropbox album feature almost exclusively for business. As a contractor, I'm able to quickly bring up collected images of job sites to share with my employees. No scrolling around with everyone tapping their feet waiting. Albums are awesome, synced uploads are awesome.
JedDinger wrote:
I disagree, since I use the dropbox album feature almost exclusively for business ... Albums are awesome, synced uploads are awesome.
Maybe it's fairer to say that Dropbox has the perception that features like albums are primarily for consumers. Maybe comments like the ones above will convince them otherwise.
