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Dropbox Staff

8 years ago

What's new in Dropbox - 5th Edition

Hi all

Welcome to another edition of our 'What's New in Dropbox'. If you missed any previous edition, you can read them all here.

The goal of this edition is to give you a bit more insights on what's happening in Dropbox and Dropbox Paper. You're welcome to add comments and feedback!

Thanks and have a great read :)

Desktop IPv6

The Dropbox application now supports connecting on networks that utilize IPv6 addressing. Should your internal network operate with IPv6 addresses then the desktop application will recognize this and operate within this environment. If, for any reason, the network were to change to using IPv4 addressing then we would continue to operate.

In the event that you are running a dual-stack IP implementation and both IPv6 and IPv4 are available, Dropbox will take the IPv6 network by default but may take IPv4 in situations where IPv6 addresses are slow to resolve.

Drag and Drop on Paper

We’ve recently released drag and drop features for columns and rows in Paper tables. Now you can reorganize your tables without having to copy/paste the content!

Raw photo previews

Dropbox now previews raw photos on the web, iOS, and Android apps. We support previews for multiple file type extensions. You can see the full list here. There are some exceptions to which RAW file extensions are supported, and we will share more updates on this once we have more information.

New Dropbox web with enhanced UI

To make dropbox.com even better and easier to use, we’re rolling out an updated design. A few things have changed with the redesigned version of dropbox.com. You can read them all in details on our Help Center:

Hope you enjoyed it!

ThePhenomenon
New member | Level 2
8 years ago
In the past I used to click the name of files and folders to open them. That was it.

Now, if I happen to have something selected, which happens so often due to the many tasks that are done, clicking on file and folder names no longer opens them! It selects them instead, even though I'm not clicking the selection checkbox on the left, even though I'm clicking the file name link!

This means that now in order to open a folder or file it's necessary to first unselect every file and folder that is checked, and only then click, instead of clicking straight away. And there is no reason for why you coded it like this. None.

There aren't many comments here. Why is the staff not replying with rational arguments to every single comment made? Why aren't they communicating with reason but are instead doing wrongful illogical changes?
- Joseph C.23
  Collaborator | Level 9
  8 years ago
  Wait until you discover you can't right-click anymore...
luannatomaz
New member | Level 2
8 years ago
Great!
- Skyler O.
  Helpful | Level 5
  8 years ago
  Add tagging capabilities to files.  Then add a way to sort/view by tag.  Folders work in some areas but are cumbersome in the photo folder.  This seems like a no brainer but would love to here some technical/marketing/business related reasons why this isn't practical.  I see Dropbox attempting to grow outside of file storage with Paper and the new professional oriented services which is cool BUT Dropbox is used by the masses because it does one thing better than everyone else- effortlessly manages files across multiple platforms.  I want to support Dropbox and see them do awesome.  The direction they seem to be going doesn't appear to jive with the reasons I use the service.  Any thoughts?
  - JohnMurray
    Helpful | Level 6
    8 years ago
    Come on Dropbox, give us back our green tick on the taskbar icon.
    
    Over twenty pages of unhappy customers on this thread here
    
    #BringBackTheGreenTick
    
    Regards
    
    John
Tiagoggl
New member | Level 2
8 years ago
Integrat paper to dropbox folders and create a desktop app which can be changed offline