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Ipad and Iphone viewing of long file names
Our company is having the issue that on the mobile app (using the ipad or iphone) often times the file name is too long to properly view what we are opening. I want to be able to read the entire file...
Well, bugger me, Dropbox has finally fixed this with the latest update. I thought to re-check this today after the latest change, and straight away could see the filenames are displayed differently. The font is smaller, and the filename is truncated in the middle, so I can read the start of the file name, but also the end which is (with my file-naming convention), typically the differentiator. But the kicker is what happens with the display pane. It is now possible to close that — there’s a small “x” in the top left corner of the display/preview pane — and once that closes, the left pane with the file names expands to full screen view! And voila! I can now see the full long file names. Dropbox: THAT is the way to take advantage of the larger screen on an iPad, especially the 12.9” model. I’m still annoyed it took so long to remedy, but thank you for finally doing it.
I found this thread after getting extremely aggravated trying to quickly find a Dropbox file on my iPad. After reading all of the comments and coming to the realization that there is no fix for this seemingly simple to fix problem (and it doesn't look like anyone at Dropbox cares), I found an app called 'File Manager' and it's free. It worked for displaying my full dropbox file names. Not sure it would work for a business but, for a personal user, it did the trick. It's sad that Dropbox is forcing us to go to third party applications instead of just fixing the problem.
We are having the same issue some of you have been having for years. Dropbox what's the word?
I think the short to medium term solution is the new Files app in iOS 11. :)
https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-11-preview/
(edit to add: As an immediate bandaid fix, I suggest Readdle's Documents app.)
At the moment Files doesn’t solve the problem as the DropBox integration in the Public Beta 2 only opens an even smaller window in the middle of the screen for you to choose your file.
This is may be a restriction of it being a Beta, but the Files app has the same narrow left -hand navigation area as the Dropbox app so even the finished version may not solve the issue entirely (although would be an improvement as the screen real estate on the right is wider)
another point i would would make is that the Google Drive iPad app was updated a few months ago and they reduced the size of the file names area so that they now truncate !!
as far as I can see, only the Amazon Dive app now natively uses the entire width of the screen on an iPad, but I had multiple sync problems with Amazon Drive and had to stop using it.
