You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Mobile currently only allows A-Z sort by name. Please allow Z-A sort option. With date naming A-Z always displays oldest files first. Please allow a swap!!
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Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey, engineer on the team working on iOS browse and file list updates here.
We are actually working on reverse sorting for iOS right now!
Unfortunately, this is baked into one of the oldest parts of the app codebase, and isn't just as simple as reversing a collection of items. Those items are fed into the file list from various data providers, and are parsed into sections based on what the current ordering type is.
There is actually one class dedicated to each ordering type! (Name, modified date, filetype, and size.) Each ordering class has to be updated individually to support reverse sorting, and each requires different logic for handling section clustering, various edge cases, and support for the myriad surfaces across the app in which a file list may appear.
We hope to rewrite much of this legacy Objective-C code in Swift at some point and take that opportunity to significantly simplify the architecture of these features so future development is much faster. For now, though, we're only able to confirm that reverse sorting is on the way.
Replying a bit late here, but excited to see your post re sorting of photos on Dropbox. I use Dropbox to store and sync photos that I export from Lightroom, including on iphone and ipad. I love that you don't compress the images like Apple does, I also love the your sync always just works. However, I just wish you allowed us to sort images by capture date. For photos capture date is the most important, and it's not something you offer right now, making it really just not work that well for me as either a viewing solution or even a file accessing solution (I have big folders). Any chance this might be added? Thanks!