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This is like vacuuming your house or office. Do you guys go without it for years on end? It's hard to believe this critical and essential feature does not exist. I currently have multiple folders that can be merged easily on windows, but not on Dropbox. One thing the Dropbox developers have to understand is that business accounts have larger amount of files on Dropbox than on their systems, and because of the painful speed of upload and download and the limitation of files that can be transferred at once (3000 files), it is not possible to do this on the desktop side. So there has to be a house cleaning tool that allows for maintenance and merging of duplicate folders and files. You can even find this on your phone these days. It is hard to imagine Dropbox for business customers do not have this option.
You should be able to have a functional way to delete duplicates, an individual couldn't possibly go through every photo. I believe you haven't created this function in an effort to get users to buy more space. Please provide this function.
- It would be GREAT if there was a way to detect and delete duplicate photos. Currently, we can only go by file name manually. An automation that would allow easy discovery would be a great boon.
- I've backed up so many different devices that duplicate files are everywhere in my Dropbox.
It would be GREAT if there was a way to detect and delete duplicate files. Currently, I was just told by support chat we can only go by file name manually. An automation that would allow easy discovery would be a great boon. other than download everything to the computer (if your SSD or HDD is big enough there is no solution 😞
could not agree more!
It is archaic that this feature does not exist.
Why the devs. did not incorporate this is or a rendition of similar feature is hard to imagine.
It is a rudementary feature for an application such as this.
FYI Folks and you may know this
Apple iOS 16 Public Beta for iPhone 8 and later includes a find duplicate facility in Photos.
Alleluia!
Perhaps the TeraBytes of billions of duplicate photos will be cut down a bit
- I think Dropbox should launch a function that can help user to delete the duplicate file in different locations.
- Walter
Dropbox Staff
Status changed:Not for right nowtoInvestigating Find and manage duplicate files and photo
- I would appreciate the ability to scan for duplicate file names so I can determine what to delete without searching each file name.
