You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Exciting times on the Dropbox Community - Live conference
We’ve got something really exciting happening on the Community next week 🤗 We’ve been looking forward to this for weeks and we’re delighted to share it with you now. On Tuesday 10th October 2023,you’ll be able to join us right here for a live screening of the keynote presentation from Work in Progress: Perspectives. You can watch all the action live from 9:00am EST 👀 When we’ll be hearing from our CEO and Co-founder Drew Houston, followed by some exciting product updates directly from our Leadership Team. If you’d like a little insight into what lies ahead for Dropbox, including the future of work 👩🏽💻 how AI is helping to transform the tools we use 🤖and the opportunities this creates, be sure to make a note in your diary now and keep an eye on the Community for more information.Even more Dropbox Product updates
We always love being able to share new Dropbox updates with you, so here are some improvements you might be interested in, including email updates, Backup news and improved search within Dropbox! Email to Dropbox is ready to use for business now too Email to Dropbox allows you and your trusted contacts to forward email attachments directly to your Dropbox account using a unique email address - that means everything sent to that email address is safe and secure in your account, without having to download or upload your files one by one. Quickly save your email attachments—like images and PDFs—directly to your Dropbox account so they are safely stored and easy to find when you need them. Perfect for saving you time, which can help you to keep your work-life balance in check! Reduce the steps needed to save your email attachments in Dropbox—quickly set up your unique and secure email address within seconds and simply forward email attachments directly to your Dropbox account Keep confidential files safe by having trusted clients and partners send sensitive documents directly to Dropbox, where you can securely store them and control access and permissions. Find your content faster by centralizing your email attachments alongside the rest of your content within Dropbox, so you don’t have to search across multiple places to find what you need Learn all about how to set up your unique email address here. Dropbox Backup updates You’ve heard us mention (obsess over) Dropbox Backup, and we’re glad to share an update. Now, with the Dropbox Backup plan, you can back up unlimited files on one external drive, in addition to one computer. Just plug in your external drive to back it up to the cloud with Dropbox Backup—it’s that easy. Videos, photos and personal documents that are stored on your external drive will get backed up to Dropbox Backup, where you can access from any device. Keep your digital life safe with Dropbox Backup, so you can quickly and smoothly recover from anything, spills on a laptop or on a hard drive. Check out the Dropbox Backup plan here. Improved Dropbox search capabilities It’s frustrating when you just can’t find what you’re looking for, and that’s why the team has been working on improving search within Dropbox. These improvements will help you find your content faster, especially when you can’t remember the file name. It happens, we know. Fast navigation with Dropbox recommendations. Dropbox will highlight your main collaborators, tags created by you and your team, and recent files and searches. Filter to find content faster. Instead of scrolling to find files in search, filter by date modified alongside folder, file type, people, and image properties to find what you need. Spell check that allows you to quickly identify misspellings and target your search more directly. We are excited about these updates, especially because it can be hard to remember all our file titles, but tell us what you think below!Introducing:: File Locking for Shared Folders
Overview This feature gives file collaborators the ability to lock a file that is contained in a shared folder so it can’t be edited by any other collaborator. Files can be locked via dropbox.com or, alternatively, directly on your Desktop App. Locked files will then be made read-only for all other collaborators. Collaborators will be able to comment on and share a link to locked files, but only the user who has locked the file, or team admin will have the ability to unlock it. A locked file will have a lock icon on the thumbnail in Finder/Explorer & on the Dropbox website. Timeline Business teams can opt in to early access through the Admin console, beginning October 16 2019. ( In order for a team to opt in to file locking, they must be migrated to the new sync engine ) General access will begin intially on December 18and rollout will continue throughout Q1 2020. Screenshots
