What's new in Dropbox - 5th Edition

[Ed]

Hi all

Welcome to another edition of our 'What's New in Dropbox'. If you missed any previous edition, you can read them all here. 

The goal of this edition is to give you a bit more insights on what's happening in Dropbox and Dropbox Paper. You're welcome to add comments and feedback!

Thanks and have a great read 🙂

Desktop IPv6

The Dropbox application now supports connecting on networks that utilize IPv6 addressing. Should your internal network operate with IPv6 addresses then the desktop application will recognize this and operate within this environment. If, for any reason, the network were to change to using IPv4 addressing then we would continue to operate.

In the event that you are running a dual-stack IP implementation and both IPv6 and IPv4 are available, Dropbox will take the IPv6 network by default but may take IPv4 in situations where IPv6 addresses are slow to resolve. 

Drag and Drop on Paper

We’ve recently released drag and drop features for columns and rows in Paper tables. Now you can reorganize your tables without having to copy/paste the content!  

Raw photo previews

Dropbox now previews raw photos on the web, iOS, and Android apps. We support previews for multiple file type extensions. You can see the full list here. There are some exceptions to which RAW file extensions are supported, and we will share more updates on this once we have more information. 

New Dropbox web with enhanced UI

To make dropbox.com even better and easier to use, we’re rolling out an updated design. A few things have changed with the redesigned version of dropbox.com. You can read them all in details on our Help Center:

• Simpler navigation
• Switch between linked accounts
• Checkboxes let you take action on files or folders
• See your team members

Hope you enjoyed it! 

[dnl]

I agree. I hate it. Let me right click to download like before.

[Joseph C.23]

I completely agree. with your statement 100%.

[joesu]

Was feeling the same, and that brought me to this community. I guess the purpose of saving and keeping a copy locally is to be "safe", from Dropbox's perspective. Also the blue light indicator (instead of the cloud icon) could serve as a reminder to keep track of files that have been recently opened. That said, after clicking on 3 files, this has become a tedious exercise, and impossible one after finishing a day's work.

[Zardif]

Why did you remove the % used from the drop down menu? It's now so much more annoying to go hunt for it. 

[Michael C.5]

The old events log was VERY useful, especially when I am looking for the files I hurriedly uploaded during a client meeting- like I was the very day this new UI went live.

I see the old /events URL extension still works and formats to the new UI. How about making it a navigable option from Recents?

[lairdmac]

I am using dropbox.com to navigate a directory hierachy.  There doesn't seem to be a way to up a directory.  I can use the "back" button but it navigates through all of the pictures and documents I opened in a directory leaf.  There should be a way to move up through a directory hierarchy.

[legioner]

Guys, please bring the old UI back. This one is very impracticle. It takes ages to download files by clicking them each separately and then pressing the Download button. It's just unnecessary. What I used to do was - L Click on a file and then R Click > Download and It worked flawlessly. Now I have to click on a small check box, move my mouse over the download button, then uncheck the file and check a new one. I know I can select multiple but it's all zipped and it takes time to download and then unzip it for 2 files. It's unnecessary, it's overly complicated. Now the old method is gone. Why change from so much better UI with so many capabilites to this limp one that has almost no options to chose from and it is overly complicated? Please bring the old UI back or at least provide that option to select the old UI. That's all I ask for (and what many others are asking too as I could see).

Thank you

[dclear]

Hey, dropbox.com has changed and it now takes more steps and more time to upload photos and share a folder. Does anyone know of a good data storage provider that is more sensitive to customer needs?

[dclear]

Hey, I can figure out how to use the new web page, but don't see what benefit it provides. Looks like dropbox.com just got a new broom and checking to see if it works.