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Ed
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffWhat'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 :)
Hope you enjoyed it!
This new layout is horrible! I want the old one back!!! I have to uncheck a file after moving/downloading....wasted time! If I move/download more than one file at a time it goes into a zip file which has to be unzipped in its new location....wasted time!! The download/move/copy/delete keys are sooooo far away from everything else on the screen....wasted time!!
PLEASE GIVE ME THE OPTION TO GO BACK TO THE OLD FORMAT!!!!!!
I agree. I hate it. Let me right click to download like before.
This new layout is horrible! I want the old one back!!! I have to uncheck a file after moving/downloading....wasted time! If I move/download more than one file at a time it goes into a zip file which has to be unzipped in its new location....wasted time!! The download/move/copy/delete keys are sooooo far away from everything else on the screen....wasted time!!
PLEASE
And I can't delete this incomplete comment!
- Its clunky, its slow 25 minutes and I still haven't actually downloaded the file and the splash pop ups offering your tour are extremely annoying as an experienced user. Get out of your users way and let them use your software stop being a PITA.
I'd like to commend the team on the new rendition of Dropbox. Great work I am sure lots of people will find these new features usefull.
Now, where is that classic view option? Also, can we please get back right click?
Thank you
Hey Dropbox team,
Generally awesome update - love the new look and simplicity. I'm frustrated by two things, one of which is already mentioned by others but the other not:
1. The effective screen width has been greatly reduced, due to the new right-column functionality and increased font size. This really doesn't work. Please see what I'm talking about - an actual screenshot in Chrome on a Macbook Air with browser full width. Yikes.
2. About every 3rd navigation click doesn't actually change the view. I'll click a folder, or press the back arrow, and the address bar/URL will update, but the screen will not. This requires me to refresh my screen about 50 times whenever I'm navigating around my Dropbox. I understand you guys were going for a more clever UI system than plain ol' linking, but this is a perfect case where utility should trump cleverness.
Is there a way to revert my version until these bugs are worked out? Since Dropbox is much more a necessary utility than discretionary app for me, I would prefer not to be a guinea pig to new changes. Maybe test it out on 1/10th or 1/100th of your userbase first, without subjecting the rest of us to brittleness.
Thanks,
TOM
Sorry if I missed it, but cannot find the Events menu any more. It is the absolute must have feature for me. Do you plan to reintroduce it?
Thanks
The new Dropbox is awful. Why do I have to keep checking and unchecking folders every time I want to edit or do anything with files in the online version? It's a waste of time and serves no purpose.
- I like check boxes. Makes it easier to control accurately many files through the pages.
Guys, please bring the old UI back. This one is very impracticle. It takes ages to download files by clicking them each separately and then pressing the Download button. It's just unnecessary. What I used to do was - L Click on a file and then R Click > Download and It worked flawlessly. Now I have to click on a small check box, move my mouse over the download button, then uncheck the file and check a new one. I know I can select multiple but it's all zipped and it takes time to download and then unzip it for 2 files. It's unnecessary, it's overly complicated. Now the old method is gone. Why change from so much better UI with so many capabilites to this limp one that has almost no options to chose from and it is overly complicated? Please bring the old UI back or at least provide that option to select the old UI. That's all I ask for (and what many others are asking too as I could see).
Thank you
- Was feeling the same, and that brought me to this community. I guess the purpose of saving and keeping a copy locally is to be "safe", from Dropbox's perspective. Also the blue light indicator (instead of the cloud icon) could serve as a reminder to keep track of files that have been recently opened. That said, after clicking on 3 files, this has become a tedious exercise, and impossible one after finishing a day's work.
This update to the web log in and navigation makes it harder to be productive. Requiring me to use my mouse for everything. How do I change it back to the old why? Why wasnt this atomaticly an option??? This sucks!! I've used db for years now am ready to move my whole team to another service if this is going to be the way you do businsss...
I have to say that the changes look nice, but in the recent tab the updates have gone backwards as least as far as it applies to my work. I need to have more, not less options to search for recent changes, particularly by others with access to my files. IT was difficult before, not it is impossible. Unless I am missing something.
With this new Dropbox web layout, the column on the right with the Share folder, Upload Files options takes away a lot of screen space. Now if you have files with long names, there is no way to view the whole name, and there is a huge column of blank space on the right. What a poor design change.
And you can no longer see the file size for each file, please add that feature back, that is very important!! How do I see the file size now??
Agreed! The change in graphics was unnecessary
All the reason, lousy the new layout
