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.

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Option to remove "Family Room" folder from hierarchy.
It would be a great feature to be able to remove the "Family Room" folder from view. Whether it is fully deleted or just hidden really doesn't matter. I have a very specific hierarchy for my needs and these unused folders add to the clutter. This option should extend to your local file folders as well as the online version and the mobile app. Thank you!
createav
5 hours ago Place Ideas
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Option to filter images in folders for comments or no comments
IT would be great to be able to filter images in a folder for comments or no comments. I'm a photographer and would use this to discuss changes and selections on images with clients.
awurster
2 days ago Place Ideas
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An option to create plain text files on the Dropbox website
Currently, plain text files can only be created in the mobile app. Please add an option to create empty plain text files in the browser app.
medihack
5 days ago Place Ideas
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Have a "Comments" column in the file overview on the website
Hi, please dropbox devs, this feature would be greatly appreciated: when browsing files with dropbox web interface it would be VERY helpful to not only be able to choose Name, Date, Type, Suffix and Filesize for being displayed as columns but also "Comment". Thus activating this column you would see indicated in the list of files, where someone commented. The way it is now, you may click each of every file and look for yourself, if someone commented. The feature would greatly improve working together with groups of people on vast amounts of files 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Thanks in advance to the community for any thumbs up 👍🏻 and surely dropbox devs for any work on implementation!
Dietmar50647
5 days ago Place Ideas
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Use image EXIF for Dropbox tags and/or captions
Hello, is it possible for Dropbox to read EXIF in images? It would be great for images that require a caption along with tags. Also, it would be very very appreciated if third parties for Wordpress would be able to show these captions and tags with a simple code.
Nikki_63
6 days ago Place Ideas
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Proper sorting for UUID on the Dropbox site
Hi, I need to handle thousands of files and folders that start with UUID. UUID is not currently sorted as it should be. So, it takes time to find files/folders. For example, I would like to see UUID in the following order: 0021AF56-9F58-45F1-9A2C-B1772304B7DB 035B7E83-0127-4385-8227-1805D9A702A4 0A5D3B19-2960-4413-BCCD-1D8979B7F10B 0BC6C3DE-7B65-4F6A-B72B-BDE9F1F81C8E 0F014C98-DBFE-4F01-81F0-9E4AA7162594 0F356A9A-C341-4FA0-8D15-E7B35E4F208A 101280E5-7D2D-4B5E-8734-0594BDB55CFA 16226027-13D7-41FC-ADB8-21FF19F1A2E5 166EE639-11A5-4149-9535-89B781D443A4 193C2291-92DB-4B18-9DEB-8ECAFBA94ADF 1C50FDBC-1C05-4CC7-8931-EB197BC9EADB 1DFAC113-C45A-4ABF-B5C3-C19169E4B19B 1F1E855C-B068-4A18-830F-80C297790462 224F9D3A-B2A8-498A-B2CB-DE4DAA863418 2299D7D6-58C4-4278-933F-9C6E3A17F988 247ADC0E-30AB-4A95-9716-87C72810D7FF 2F250131-95A3-44BC-B426-39A752C28D7C 32280B79-9F58-4B58-89CA-9976387DFB0E 36ECF521-AB56-4C28-AD51-8FCF20646075 36FED04A-859F-4C7E-91B6-E4025E6CF18C 423171B8-BB40-4090-9618-81A5AD27E168 4253A1F1-6605-44EB-B0EC-D05A3CD4F217 44206AD1-C69B-47D4-A9F7-1A703F817A19 48D1DFAC-A28B-40F8-A267-D610193A884A 4BA0C494-2B0C-4C17-A8A0-3B96A6A0B133 4CCB5654-8821-422D-BDDD-C66A9564930A 4D6896E2-3138-4C69-A881-9A09A639918C 50DBA874-D80B-482C-86EE-93F51A7EED9B 561B85C9-CFBA-4E11-9A12-85D03F517756 5712A9B8-95FF-4233-BC02-7E19C81B8A54 5A4A5732-F3D0-45D2-B61D-2DA713CA9A16 6081280A-4CA6-4A5C-AC40-587DD80C65C7 6185AFEA-66AE-42F1-BD24-7B784AB1F011 62918419-62E5-48C6-9F74-2F2CA3B78DB1 632B1EC4-6D7D-4EA3-B75A-FAC562F3DC61 651580BF-0C6C-4A0D-BF24-4B00A8D2B712 656F2037-E7A6-46AA-9541-0D863AB3AB35 6756B47E-486C-4FFC-875C-AABA03E80CA5 6AC0C7AA-582B-4A49-AB2C-57E070BD5C42 6AFEA497-7863-455E-9252-5C16CC4A3FAD 6E281325-8C07-4C32-B67D-65EDC7C1D3F9 717650DE-C642-4DE1-95B4-A836D8D5DBA8 71BA520E-05DE-45C7-B770-3FFACB2E2047 73955B1B-4123-4FE0-91B6-7974EA9E36BD 75BD84C9-05DA-4C3F-A362-9B2A8CB7FFBD 789601BF-2483-42FA-995F-16B269FD8B1C 79B2BD5A-9D80-42A6-9E96-7DEC454AC35A 7ADE5EE9-6ED3-4549-8AA0-51268BF63DC2 7C07C177-A8B8-4A87-BA0D-6FE0594B1714 7CC74E20-053C-4E63-99A7-220759AE2D36 7ED9CBEF-6D15-4C79-91B8-826BEE4E3C94 802A603E-532C-4691-A5F6-69F2CAC7B5BE 81B4E893-B670-456D-9730-28B4D436A494 821BCD08-3806-484B-BEE9-779AA7858BEA 83520212-9450-4EDF-BEC5-F60626C53636 83CD6C28-BE7E-45CF-997D-0AC1E952C23C 8429B260-3030-4C7C-9418-3485F27AC918 85607345-B454-4297-B629-E1A289641CF8 8623D450-86EB-4B8D-BBB4-807C6E41B2DE 870250E1-C7ED-4C09-B7CD-C3BD00CC0E84 899D425C-917B-4175-A7BD-09F6376D39DB 90DBDA71-4655-490C-9A3B-C015987A2658 93B38EAF-B731-44BE-A518-A4485F260FFC 94DD9B12-B9A6-46F9-A9B6-914F4142949F 9D778EE1-CE34-48C5-B64E-F3A42B9380A0 A001DB7C-D9B4-46E8-A6AE-B6E3F44D3A05 A0FF0E57-2C9D-4F78-9D7E-D74B5D64E4EC A878BBE9-BA7B-4983-93A0-6DD37F29F48E A8D9592D-B088-4D72-A757-73F8B98383DE A9C2D7C9-F549-4C07-8D3D-EB5C06FB8436 AB065105-A748-4F1B-90AF-F355AEB210D8 ABF8E44F-DF72-4B5E-A69A-5D02A5DE07D0 AD6EC207-4D37-436F-AF55-314759805DE6 B34AB61A-50B6-4F60-80A2-A9DBC59E0642 BCD31805-A001-4B00-99A6-88577B81816E BFA77C4B-2F22-488C-BF2A-646B24EA8A26 BFD69CB4-7E8E-4D52-A165-58FF00B7D11D C23B8C84-21AE-4B9A-AF68-3F4E999122DE C28E4002-A589-4438-A06D-7006C96C8D50 C5D35E1B-DA19-4EC1-98CB-42F3DF825D5B C986E395-E07E-4340-87D9-9D6FAB2E3D77 CC82ADD6-9EBF-4ABA-B561-37E944383870 D1142AF6-BBC1-431C-B909-468244BD256C D8BE2C16-542B-4510-ADD1-E39A2D839241 D8F17510-7F5B-481D-81E6-E45160D09A3E DC1E1A22-BCD7-4DBF-9A78-371ED456D6B1 E0226FCA-40EB-43A8-A1C8-5EF5978A8EDA E05789B0-A3AF-4084-8035-3DE75E15CC61 E19DA578-3C2A-4ACA-8A45-2C043AD7CF52 E1EE3ECE-F2A0-4917-9FF5-F0CCBBDC563C E67F5D2D-8CE4-467F-9214-A5826BF86E8D E87F47CC-9C58-496E-B785-81B224BEEA0A E900894B-04A7-48D0-9469-B7DB5053C52C EC06354B-6BA1-4BE3-AE66-1A2883C39175 EF1918F9-0C64-4A6E-927F-805646D22F8A EF9D1E4C-597A-41A3-906F-2E1CCA3393A3 FC09512E-6640-4322-B6A5-CF5713591AD1 FDD3258D-284E-41E9-9774-E0BD5CB2D53F But, with Dropbox, does something like: Amazon S3 sort these folder properly. With Windows File Explorer, the ascending order doesn’t work for UUID as well, but Windows has an option to change the behavior: https://www.elevenforum.com/t/enable-or-disable-numerical-sorting-in-file-explorer-in-windows-11.9030/ If you enable this option, UUIDs are sorted properly. UUID should be sorted properly like Amazon S3 by default. If not, there should be an option to make it right with an option like Windows. Thank you, Kaz
KazS
7 days ago Place Ideas
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Remove advertising popup modals from paid plans.
Hey Dropbox team! I know popup modals are all the rage on websites these days. You know where a user goes to a website, starts looking for a thing, and then BAM the most important thing that the marketing team wants them to see pops up and interrupts their flow? So today, I went to look for a file to fire off to a client and that happens to me...IN MY DROPBOX USER PORTAL (I have paid plan) midway through typing a word! How tacky is that? (hint: incredibly tacky). And to make things even wilder, when I was venting about this to Dropbox support (I know, no one over there listens or cares, but if I'm going to be distracted from a simple task, I should really go all out, right?), the support staff (who hadn't actually read my complaint) sent me to a help center article about email notifications (that's how I know they didn't read it). Before I could get a sentence into the topic, BOOM, another modal! This one asking me how satisfied I was with the help center. So I ask, is disrupting users from using the product somehow beneficial to business? Are you getting qualitative survey responses by posing the question before the user could possibly have formulated an answer? My suggestion: stop making my paid experience reel like some amateur-hour-free-tier garbage. I know you can do better.
jaycub
11 days ago Place Ideas
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Allow hiding individual photos of folders from the Photos tab
The Photos Folder is not a useful tool if we are not able to decide what shows up there. I am using Dropbox to back up a Mac, so photos that are on my Mac are in those backups and also stored in other folders on Dropbox. Therefore, in the Photos Folder there are duplicate copies of each of those photos. I cannot delete either as they are on Dropbox for different purposes - one as a backup and one as part of my photo organization system in Dropbox. Without the ability to hide photos from my Photos Folder, I will need to find another way to organize my photos.
PhotosGal
14 days ago Place Ideas
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Expand left sidebar width on the website
I need tobe able expand the left sidebar width. I have many levels of files and I can not see the names of folders that I want to move files into. Because of the narrowness, all I can see is the first letter of some folders, and none of others!. I want to be able to expand the left sidebar so I can see the names of those folders and not just the first letter. We use DB for work and at third level DB starts cutting off folder names and our names aren't even that long. By the 4th level, where we start putting images/docs by client name, job, or product, I can only see a few letters and it makes keeping stuff organized very difficult.
BelzConsultant
19 days ago Place Ideas
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Option to create or edit plain Text or Markdown documents
I would have thought that the ability to create/edit plain text (*.txt) documents is extremely basic, and something that would be very useful for note taking, documenting the content of a folder and many more things. However this seems to be not supperted either in the Android or the Web app. Something that has become a standard on many cloud-based sites is to also support Markdown documents (*.md) which are like text documents but can be viewed in a formatted nice way. This is also not supported but would be extremely useful to have in the Android and Web apps.
JoPe
19 days ago Place Ideas
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