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Graham
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9 months ago

How do you organize your photos?

Hey photographers, it’s hard to believe we’re already well into the summer. With brighter and longer days, I’ll probably be getting out and taking photos a little more regularly, which got me wondering about the best way to organize my photos. 
 
 
 
I’m not gonna lie, my current system is far from ideal. I have Camera uploads turned on and my photos make their way to Dropbox and then they just stay where they are, which isn’t really helpful if I want to find a photo. This is something that I want to improve. I’ve already been inspired by how one of my team mates, Emmet, organizes his photos, but I wanted to hear how some of you experts are doing it, too.
 
Are you organizing by shoot, by client, by subject, or by something completely different? Are you using automations, changing naming conventions or doing anything else to help make the way you organize your photos easier, or do you go through everything at the end of the day and find a home for it in your Dropbox account?
 
Whatever you’re doing to keep your photos organized, I’d love to hear about it and you could potentially help ‌inspire me and some of our other group members to get our photos a little more organized.
  • anonymous's avatar
    anonymous
    6 months ago

    Graham  I'm afraid the Dropbox.com Photo experience is broken, unusable for larger Photo collections. 
    I've been working with Dropbox Engineering (Ticket #24144018) and they are aware of the indexing issues affecting your platform.
    I've included below the last two replies but please have a look at the support conversation and the video captures showing the poor performance of Dropbox photos... Disappointing!

    Website Photos view is slow - The Dropbox Community (dropboxforum.com)

     

    Ticket #24144018

     
    The engineers have informed me that a resolution for the indexing issue may come at a later date. However, they don't have an exact timeline to provide at this moment.
     
    If you have any other questions, please let me know. 
     
    Regards,
    Maddison

     

     


    Sep 26, 2024, 12:14 AM PDT:

    Hi Maddison .... Thanks for the reply .... However, it's the indexing that seems to be the problem. I understand that Dropbox would need to index the photos once, but Dropbox will re-index the same photos from the beginning again and again if the browser is shut down and then reopened. Waiting for >13K of Photos to re-index every time the browser is opened makes the Dropbox photo experience unusable ... As shown from the captures your competitors' products don't suffer the same issues.

     

     

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