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Selecting all starred photos
I need to select all of the photo's that we recently starred. The only way I can see them all together is on my homepage but from there you cannot select multiple photo's and there are no checkboxes...
- Starring a file only makes it appear on your home page for quick access. There's no way to select all or filter on all starred files.
The only way that worked for me was through Dropbox's Iphone App.
Open the App.
Go to the folder with your files, some of which are already "starred".
Select "List View" [this does not work while on "Grid View"].
Tap on Select (top right).
And then Select from your list - manually, one by one - all the files that have the "star" next to their name.
It's not the most straightforward way and Dropbox can definitely improve this functionality, but if your starred files are not in the thousands and/or if you are patient enough, this solution should work.
I have a similar problem - I've done exactly the same as the original OP only my wife has selected about a thousand.
Can't do them one by one.
So I'm writing a script which will - download the list of names, and then find each one on my home computer and copy them into a new directory. I'll let you know how I get on tomorrow.
But really, I shouldn't need to be a geek to solve this problem.
I totally agree - the "star" is almost useless as it stands.
Hi again
OK - I have managed to do this. It helps that I am using Linux and working on the command line, so this is not going to be useful for everyone - but here's how it goes.
a) Go to the "starred" list and ensure you click on the link to show ALL of them.
b) right-click on the page and download it to a file, called, say, photolist.html
c) now the following commands are what you need:-
This one splits all the html commands onto single lines.
sed "s/>/>\n/" photolist.html > photolist1.html
This one extracts all the file names you need - with the subdirectories they are in.
grep "^<a.*starred" > photolist1.html | sed "s/^.*preview\///" | sed "s/sed "s/\" class=\"sta.*//" > filelist.txt
No guarantees! But it worked for me. Hope this is helpful.
Hi again
I've just had reason to repeat the exercise I did in the previous post, and I've got a couple of typos in the commands.
The two commands should be:-
sed "s/>/>\n/g" photolist.html > photolist1.html
grep "^<a.*starred" photolist1.html | sed "s/^.*preview\///" | sed "s/\" class=\"sta.*//" > filelist.txt
NOTE ALSO - there is a maximum number of starred files that can be displayed on the front page - 1000. As many as you like can be starred, but only a thousand are displayed.
thank you,
wrote:The only way that worked for me was through Dropbox's Iphone App.
Open the App.
Go to the folder with your files, some of which are already "starred".
Select "List View" [this does not work while on "Grid View"].
Tap on Select (top right).
And then Select from your list - manually, one by one - all the files that have the "star" next to their name.
It's not the most straightforward way and Dropbox can definitely improve this functionality, but if your starred files are not in the thousands and/or if you are patient enough, this solution should work.
that is a solution! It is still a fail from dropbox, but no my star-selection wasnt pointless!Thanks for this suggestion, mri. True, Dropbox need to sort this, but it's good to have a work-around.
Appreciate your help.
Cheers
Iain
