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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...
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.
Jane, thanks for the info about the new desktop app. I just enabled it, and it looks like pinning is much closer to what I've been hoping starring would do. Since the star feature is looking to be more focused around folders in the new desktop app, (starred folders show up in the left pane, and I haven't noticed anything new for starred files,) is there any plan to replace the star affordance in the Dropbox Preview page with one for pinning? Then, I could pin pictures as I'm reviewing them right in the Preview page, which would be absolutely awesome.
Edit: On second thought, pinning seems more geared towards sticking a few things at the top of a folder rather than flagging them for organization purposes. I was hoping I could multi-select pinned files, and do some action on them, but that doesn't appear to be the case. Starring may still be the concept I need for flagging files I want to move to another folder, in which case I'm back to my original request to allow the user to filter or sort by starred items, so it's easier to do bulk operations on a large number of starred files.
