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BenoitD's avatar
BenoitD
New member | Level 1
2 days ago

The Photos page on the website is very slow, why?

Hi everyone,

My name is Benoit, and I have been a Dropbox user since 2016.

For me, my entire life is in Dropbox, and it is very important for me to have access to your solution.

However, I have a small issue when trying to view my photos on the website (https://www.dropbox.com/photos). 

It is very difficult to find a specific photo, and the page loads very slowly! For example, when I try to find a picture from year, the page takes a long time to load. I set the filter to the year 2022, and it takes 4 to 5 minutes to display all the photos from that year!

I tried in different browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox, and Brave, but it's the same issue. Also, I tried in Linux Mint, Windows (10 and 11) and I've the same problem.

My wife uses a different solution, like Google Photos(🤮), and when she wants to find a photo, it is not as slow as Dropbox and she can search for a photo by name. Why don’t you have this filter in Dropbox?

Best regards,

Benoit

  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
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    Hey BenoitD, thanks for reaching out to us.

    It's possible that this has to do with the number of files in your account; do you have lots of them?

    Are these photos you manually added to your account or were they automatically added through the Camera Uploads feature?

    Also, if you navigate to your files from the "all files" page, does the page load quicker?

    Keep me posted.

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