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New Dropbox for iOS

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Re: New Dropbox for iOS

#3
A little nitpick on a glitch that I immediately noticed:

The navigation bar (title bar) up on top looks pretty horrible. Opacity of the icons flickers when navigating back and forth, and "very long folder names..." are truncated differently the moment animation starts, causing them to jump around and overlay buttons for the duration of the animation.

Re: New Dropbox for iOS

#5
Still can't sort folder items by date added or date modified. sigh.

I have folders with tons of photographs in them that I upload from my desktop. Whenever I'm on my ipad or iphone, finding a picture I just uploaded is an absolute nightmare if I can't remember the name ... I usually have to go load up dropbox.com in my browser, do the sort there and download the file.

I guess my particular use case doesn't occur that often :(

Re: New Dropbox for iOS

#6

Still can't sort folder items by date added or date modified. sigh. I have folders with tons of photographs in them that I upload from my desktop. Whenever I'm on my ipad or iphone, finding a picture I just uploaded is an absolute nightmare if I can't remember the name ... I usually have to go load up dropbox.com in my browser, do the sort there and download the file. I guess my particular use case doesn't occur that…

Same here. I write a lot of notes in markdown that I sync using Dropbox. I often want to read and edit those notes on my phone or ipad, but I don't remember the exact file names.

Similarly, I wish photo apps had a "use most recent photo" button, instead of making me select my photos, scroll down to the very bottom, and click on the last square.

Re: New Dropbox for iOS

#7
post #2

Is it possible to share a folder via the IOS app? I keep trying to do this and can't figure it out and not sure if it's just me or if it's not possible.

I don't think you can. You can delete and create new folders, and I think thats about it.

Re: New Dropbox for iOS

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Still can't sort folder items by date added or date modified. sigh. I have folders with tons of photographs in them that I upload from my desktop. Whenever I'm on my ipad or iphone, finding a picture I just uploaded is an absolute nightmare if I can't remember the name ... I usually have to go load up dropbox.com in my browser, do the sort there and download the file. I guess my particular use case doesn't occur that…

I toss PDFs I want to read on my phone into dropbox. This use case happens often for me. I have to consciously rename the PDFs I want to read in the next few moments with prepended names like ! so they appear at the top.

Re: New Dropbox for iOS

#10
I am currently leaning toward replacing my Dropbox with Google drive. More (free) capacity, better integration with other Google services, easy creation of notes and spreadsheets, easier file sharing...

Anyone else feeling the same way?

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