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How can I tag photos or share photos with multiple users easily?
This is absolutely crazy that a company the size of DropBox can't figure out how to tag documents. It would SAVE them a crap load of space becuase right now you have to save the same photo to mult...
Lusil
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox Staff
Thank you, and yes I am aware of how to share to multiple people. The MAJOR dislike abouit Dropbox is the tagging / indexing feature or the lack thereof.
If you take one photo of five people (John, Mike, Sam, Alex and Jeff) then another photo of two people (John and Mike) then a third photo of just Alex the only way to find ALL photos that each person is in is to set up FIVE seperate folders and copy the SAME photo into each of the FIVE folders.
The right way to organize is to put every single photo ever taken into ONE folder and then "TAG" or "INDEX" each photo with the Identifier of the person in it or the description of the photo so that I can go to the search feature and type in JOHN and all the photos that JOHN is TAGGED in will appear.
- Rich
Super User II
Dropbox has been moving away from photo management over the last several years. Every good feature they've ever had that made managing and sharing photos easy and sensible has been removed. They even shut down their companion app, Carousel, which was meant specifically for photo management.
Dropbox is no longer the best choice for managing and sharing photos.
OK - Well, any suggestions on who to use? I use it for photos but I also use it for pretty much everything, not just pictures and videos.
The conversations about the ability to tag has been going on for years. Do a search for 'photo tags' and see what I mean. I have been requesting this feature for years. It gets "submitted to the design team" and then is forgotten.
Flickr does recognize photo tags and their search function works flawlessly. However, Flickr is only for photos. You will need to find somewhere else for your other files.
If you wish to stay with Dropbox, there is somewhat of a workaround. If you download and use the Dropbox Desktop Application, it will recognize tags. I am a Windows user and the Dropbox folder just shows up along with all my others. I simply go into File Explorer and search tags there. I can find photos in seconds. The Dropbox Desktop Application is available for both PC and Mac. Sadly, though, you still cannot search tags using the website or mobile app. Why this isn't a feature is beyond me. I have thousands of photos and finding a specific one is a chore unless I am using the Dropbox Desktop app on my computer. On my iPhone I find myself using Google Photos and their photo recognition feature. It's not nearly as precise and fast as searching tags but I can usually find a photo after doing some digging.
