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SELECTING MULTIPLE STARRED FILES
Hi, Can anyone help with a shortcut to selecting multiple starred files?
I have over 300 starred photo files I'm trying to download.
There's got to be a better way than clicking all those fil...
Hi porchbaby, and welcome aboard the Community!
What you can do is go to your Photos page on www.dropbox.com and then, click on the Starred column there; all of your starred photos should appear.
If you have many images for each year, you can also select the “Year” option from the menu, and click on the small checkboxes above each year’s photos. That should select all of them and you can then, download them in bulk.
I hope that makes sense, but I’m here if you need to ask me something.
Nancy
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi porchbaby, and welcome aboard the Community!
What you can do is go to your Photos page on www.dropbox.com and then, click on the Starred column there; all of your starred photos should appear.
If you have many images for each year, you can also select the “Year” option from the menu, and click on the small checkboxes above each year’s photos. That should select all of them and you can then, download them in bulk.
I hope that makes sense, but I’m here if you need to ask me something.
Hi Nancy,
coming back with this solution a few months later because that works bit only for me ... I do not see all the starred files ... as there was a missing identification / refresh.
Do you know any way to "re-index" all the starred files?
Many thanks for your attention,
Maxime
Hi everyone,
I have all my photos on Dropbox, folders sorted per year, then months.
The best have been "starred".
I'd like to download all the best photos from a specific year, or month. However, it seems that from the "Photos" menu I do not get all the starred ones, but just a part of them.
It appears from all the browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge) under Windows.
From the mobile app, all the starred files are correctly displayed ...
Since the last new features/Dropbox layout, we have 2 new buttons on each folders: recent/starred. That would have helped me, however, it seems old starred files are not identified ...
Do you get the same behavior?
Were you able to solve it?
Many thanks in advance,
Maxime
- Megan
Hi Maxime Coevoet, sorry to hear about that!
Would it be too much of a trouble if you could attach here some screenshots of your starred content, as shown in the mobile app, and some as shown on the web?
When did this behavior start happening?
Let me know more, and we'll take it from there!
Hi Megan,
thank you for coming back to my questions!
Here are some screenshots:
1. In a specific folder, you can see starred files:
2. The same folder, "Favoris" selected, no files:
3. Here is the screen of "January 2020", same period of time I made the screen shots:
Is there a limit of "starred" files we can select? Then to be displayed: any "cache issue"?
Many thanks,
Maxime
Yes!!! That worked!! Thank you so much for your quick reply and for saving me so much time and effort! I knew there was an easier way! Blessings to you!!
I have starred thousands of photos and the only file identified in the Photos folder is a video. My starred files are mostly RAWs, so I can understand that the program doesn't identify it as a photo, just want to check if that's correct?
- Walter
Hey sydpsd - if the files aren't showing in general in your Photos page, starring them won't make them appear there.
You'll be able to see them in your homepage under the Starred option.
I hope this helps!
Great, but how to bulk UNSTAR hundreds of items afterwards? Even at the Photos page, I select all of them and if I try UNSTARring them it only allows me to do it one by one... please allow SELECTION OF FILES and mass actions on the starred items!!!
