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The Photos page is changing...
I've just seen the banner that says "The Photos page is changing on 30 June 2017 but your pictures will stay safe in your Dropbox account. Learn more". The gist is that they are removing the final re...
Hi everyone,
Thanks again for your continued feedback on our upcoming changes.
I wanted to let you know that we've heard your concerns about how difficult it is to preserve your album structures in Dropbox. Our engineers have created a simple album export tool to help make this process easier. It's available starting today at the following URL:
www.dropbox.com/photos/album_download
The tool will allow you to download your albums to your desktop as .zip files. Please note that you'll be downloading a new copy of your photos, not moving them, so the photos will still exist in your Dropbox in the original location you saved them.We hope this tool will help alleviate some of the frustration that some of you have reported in this thread. If you have any problems using the tool, feel free to contact us via www.dropbox.com/support.
Regards,
Richard
Hi,
I have read and throughly processed the information regarding changes to the Photos experience, as discussed in this post. Can't say I'm happy, but whatever, I'll move into the New World bravely, assuming I can transition there without too much pain.
In the section called "Use folders to replace albums" in that post, they mention that Dropbox won't be able to automatically convert albums to folders for you, so they give instructions for you to do it yourself. They make it sound easy: basically, just select the photos you want and move them into a new folder.
But all my albums (I have over 100) have photos from all sorts of different underlying folders. Furthermore, they aren't contiguous - I'll often make selections, choosing, say, just 20 favorites of 100 from a trip. So, manually selecting them all from their folders is out of the question, as it would take me over 15 minutes per album, probably.
So, what should I do?
Thanks,
TOM
You can either manually go through all your pictures, download them and then upload them again to folders.
Yes, you will have to manually create and organize all your pictures to folders.
My advice is to move to Google Photos. That's my plan. You will be better off with Google Photos as it is a more powerfull comapred to Dropbox. I'm long time Dropbox user and I think I'll have to abandon it after years of usage and move to Google Drive and Google Photos.
I believe Dropbox has faced reality and decided to kill everything that's not Bussines related.
They don't really care about consumer options as that is not their goal or main money maker.
cheers
I had only just moved from Google Photos too after they killed Picasa :-( Now Dropbox is killing Albums. Maybe go back to good old Flickr although I guess that's about to die too :-(
Thanks Drakhar. Pretty depressing, but, I think you're right.
