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.
PhotosGal
12 months agoNew member | Level 2
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Allow hiding individual photos of folders from the Photos tab
The Photos Folder is not a useful tool if we are not able to decide what shows up there. I am using Dropbox to back up a Mac, so photos that are on my Mac are in those backups and also stored in othe...
lucacapula
11 months agoNew member | Level 2
Dears, this used to be a feature and for some reason you removed it. If that wasn't already wild enough you are also disregarding thousand of idea suggestions and requests on your forum from other users like me.
Now. If that is the case and you do not care at all about feature suggestions, why are you making us waste our time in the first place? That fake sense of "your opinion matters" fell into the bs realm long ago for any internet user with some sense in their head.
Now to the feature. The main problem is that the photo tab at the moment is completely useless. The idea It's as simple as the subject suggest.
For example, Nextcloud which I also use, let me create a file named ".nomedia" and have it saved in each folder that should not show its content under the Photo tab.
That is an extremely smart approach as it minimize the work on your side (no UI dev needed for example) and limit it to simply adding a control structure to the recursive algorithm you use when you check for updates in the folders. Sounds easy enough for me as a user and for you as a development company. How about that? It's a win win! It's even faster and cheaper than the time one of you guys from customer support will spend to reply to this message with a boiler plate copy and paste. And you can show the world that you actually care for our opinion for a change!
Get to it my friend. Get to it.