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Stig N.1
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10 years ago
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Enable searching EXIF metadata on website and mobile apps

Hi Dropbox and Carousel team, I have been a faithful and long time user of both Dropbox and Carousel, but have recently switched to Microsoft OneDrive as my Cloud Drive provider. What I have experi...
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alphachannel
Helpful | Level 6
8 years ago

I have thousands of photos in DropBox. I turned on Camera Uploads years ago, and never turned it off. I love DropBox, and I love having all my photos safe. But when it comes time to find that photo of my son at the beach, or that video of a presentation I took at a conference... I get endlessly frustrated with scrolling through photos and video organized by date. 

Right now I'm considering using http://photowranglr.com for DropBox - it gives you the same search features that iOS and Google Photos has. 

Does anyone else still keep photos in DropBox hoping they do a Carousel 2.0 or something? Has everyone already migrated to iCloud or Google Photos? 

  • aomalov's avatar
    aomalov
    Explorer | Level 3
    8 years ago

    Hi @alphachannel !

     

    Thanks for opening a great discussion. Being quite a moderate photoshooter, I found thousands of photos overwhelming my iPhone. And... there was DB for the resque. Now all of them are up in the cloud, but.... there is no way to sort , filter or find anything. 

    Photowrangler looks nice, but they want as much a yearly sub fee for DB just for indexing over 5000 of pix. 

    Did you see those prices unfair ?

    Should a talent pool like Dropbox make use of AlexNet (or other public trained convolutional neural networks) to deliver photowrangler functions (and much more) as a value-added offer for a more reasonable price ?

     

    Have a nice day !

    Andrew

    • Crodologue's avatar
      Crodologue
      Explorer | Level 3
      8 years ago

      Same here. We do a lot of photography and videography and Dropbox is simply the worst to get organised and have a nice overview over the images. I wish there was something like 'flickr' or 'google photos'.

      Dropbox used to have a timeline... it's gone now. It's awesome to downgrade.

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    Jane
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
    8 years ago

    Hey alphachannel,  

    Thanks for posting your request on the Dropbox Community and sending in your feedback!  

    We're happy to hear that you love the service. :heart: 

    At the moment this is not an available feature, though it's a great idea and maybe other users will also share your enthousiasm about it, I'd like to thank you for your letting us known here and encourage you to keep sending us this feedback :pushpin: :dart:. Please keep in mind that the "Share an idea" section of the Community is closely monitored by our product specialists for further improvements! 

    Thanks again for your comments, hope you have a great rest of the day!  

    Warm regards, 

    JaneA 

    • marks57's avatar
      marks57
      New member | Level 2
      6 years ago

      Hi 

      I am wondering if there is any progress on this topis? I have thousands of photos in my folder and find it really hard to find anything as you cant search the meta data on dropbox...is there any plan to relovel this like on photos on an iphone? there must be so many people in this same situation! thanks mark 

      • Jane's avatar
        Jane
        Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
        6 years ago
        Thanks for reaching back out to me on this discussion to share your interest on this functionality Mark (marks57)!
         
        You may keep in mind that I’ve moved your thread under the “Share an Idea” section on our Community, since it’s being monitored by our team specialists & your contribution is taken into consideration for future feature implementation. 
         
        I hope that other users find this idea useful too & they upvote your comments here. Of course, our Forum Wall is always open to your feedback or questions, so feel free to drop us a line here; we’re just a post away. Take care until we talk again Mark!