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Forum Discussion
Easy way to filter starred photos
I have a ton of photos that I've gone through one by one and starred the ones I want to be able to move into a separate folder. I now think that the "starring" exercise was useless. How do I find a way to select these starred photos easily to get them into a place where they can be printed?
Same problem here. I have thousands of photos from a long roadtrip, went through all of them and starred the ones I wanted only to find out that I can't sort them by starred items. What a waste. Disappointing that 2 years later dropbox still hasn't done anything about it.
I have the same use case as this, only I want to move the photos into a separate, shared folder to give others access on the web rather than printing. Sadly, there's no efficient way to do this. Without the ability to sort/filter on starred, or being able to see more than 5 starred files at a time on the home page, starring is useless.
Other features I can think of that would help in this scenario would be tagging files, but of course only if you could search, sort or filter on tags; or at least a move/copy menu option from the file preview. But sadly, dropbox has none of these. I have over 1000 photos to look through, and now I'm wondering why I thought dropbox was a good place to try to organize them. A little better support for this type of scenario would go a long way!
Wait I really can't click a button to get all the pictures I just starred grouped together and moved to a separate folder??? I wish I had known that a few hours ago! Any idea if this will be a feature?
- Lusil
Dropbox Staff
Hey lyssjoyrob, thanks for nudging us on this thread and for your feedback!
Our dev team is constantly working on implementing additional improvements, but we don't have a timeline to share.
Although there isn't currently a direct way that you can find starred items and move them to a new or existing folder, you can always post any ideas you have on features you'd like to see in the future in our Share an idea section.
In the meantime, if you have any other questions, don't hesitate to give us a shout. Thanks!
As a follow-up from my last comment: for what it's worth, the dropbox desktop app seems to recognize when a file is moved, in which case it just moves the file on the server rather than re-uploading. So, it's still reasonably efficient to just organize the files on your desktop, and dropbox will update to reflect the new file locations, though it would be nice to do it in the web app.
I am also in the same dilemma [starred an expansive number of files under the guise of it being a filter of ‘favorites’ of sorts] and am dissapointed that my paid Dropbox Plus is not able to replicate a ubiquitous interaction such as filter and export starred/favorites. The use case here would seem obvious: I am able to organize my files into categorical structures using folders and within that organizational structure, I need to be able to highlight specific files (predominantly images these days) that are the best, most important subset without relocating the file away from the original organizational structure.
- Jane
Horrible design... still... and its 2019. There is 0 point of this feature if they dont get moved to a starred folder. This feature should not be a thing if it is not useable as a way to organize files. All this does is confuse people becuase in every other place we have the ability to star or favorite, files/photos, it adds them to a new folder allowing quick and easy organization. This feature does nothing of the sort. Dropbox is file management, not a homepage.
So true.
There is no tumbnail in the home starred widget making it very hard to identify pictures. Is there a starred filter that could be used in combination with searches?
- Rich
Super User II
AndersAxelsson wrote:
Is there a starred filter that could be used in combination with searches?
No, there isn't.
I'm here to voice my opinion with the others. Just went through almost 3,000 wedding photos, starring the ones we want to print, now to find there's no way to just bulk-select or move starred files into a new folder. Worthless! I'd expect this kind of thing from google but dropbox seemed to be a tier above thus far. Will definitely be rethinking my subscription.
I need to print photos in high quality format. They are wedding photos. Can someone help me find a FAST and HIGH quality solution? I need them ASAP!
