Get Organized with Folders
We’ve introduced a lot of new features over the past two months, and on just about every post somebody chimes in: “You know what else would be great? Folders.” We couldn’t agree more, and today we’re rolling out our most-requested upgrade by far — the ability to organize all types of files in a folder.
The process builds on the foundation of our image galleries, but allows you to fill your folders with any file type you want. To make things even easier, we’ll automatically check to see if your folder contains only images — if it does, that folder will automatically become an image gallery. All your current galleries will seamlessly become part of the new folder system, and you won’t notice any difference on your image download pages.
That covers existing files — now here’s a look at all the new stuff you can do. On the upload form, you’ll now have the option to add your files to an existing folder or start a new one (and give it a name). Here’s a visual:
In the spirit of improving your DivShare organization, we’ve also made some changes to the upload success page. If you’re adding files to a folder, the success page will display a list of all your files. If you’re working on a gallery, you’ll get a quick look at all the images you’ve added so far. Here’s a sample of both:
Then there’s the download page. For image galleries, we’ve made some aesthetic changes, but everything remains generally the same. Watch out, though, for some major gallery browsing upgrades coming soon. On the download page for a file contained in a gallery, you’ll see a list of all the files in that folder. That way, users can easily navigate between related files, and you can easily group all your related files. Check it out:
Meanwhile, we’ve also made a huge improvement to your Dashboard. You can now view all your folders and galleries individually — just select one from the new drop-down list underneath the “Search” form, and all your other files are whisked away. Try it out!
We have a couple more features on tap for the next 24 hours — first is the option to move files between folders and add files you’ve already uploaded to new folders. We’ll also be adding folder support to the Wordpress plugin — for the time being it might not function 100% using the old gallery option.
All in all, we’ve been using folders for a couple days during development, and they’ve already increased our productivity big time. We’re glad you can now enjoy them as well — and, as always, comment away with all your suggestions, ideas and any errors you might encounter.
In other great news, someone who registers within the next 24 hours will be our 20,000th user. To celebrate, we’ll be programming non-stop to make the site even more powerful and exciting. Stay tuned!
March 5th, 2007 at 4:01 am
Just going to check it out but sounds perfect!
March 5th, 2007 at 4:32 am
first of all i wanna say that ive never seen such a excelent CLOSE contact of user of a website …
but important things that i wanna talk about is giving a warning to webmasters of divshare ….
all of users choos 80% perfomance that always works always rather than 100% perfomance that works sometimes ….
i mean try to give new thing that you are sure you can support it always not just for few months ….
March 5th, 2007 at 5:43 am
Can I create new folders to put existing files into - or can I only do that as part of upload process?
March 5th, 2007 at 5:45 am
Is there a way to make new folders for existing files?
Thanks very much for this service. I hope it stays around for a long time.
March 5th, 2007 at 5:53 am
One other matter (I’ll post it in this latest thread as you haven’t yet introduced a general “Suggestions” thread).
More and more of us use cameras with a variety of Raw formats, and it would be incredibly useful to be able to upload AND VIEW these.
Perhaps you could team up with a third party - for example Cerious who do the Thumbs Plus software - to enable Raw format and Adobe .dng files to be viewable in Galleries. I do hope this is possible.
March 5th, 2007 at 6:13 am
Lastly, before I ’shut up’ for now, - I wondered why you were going the route of the drop down box of folders/galleries rather than just having a tree structure (windows explorer fashion - but nice design) on the main page.
With the drop-down box you still cannot group similar subject matter in categories (as you can in sub-folders in a tree structure).
March 5th, 2007 at 6:24 am
OK Guys, if anybody could give me a hint as to what is happening.
I just got an RSS feed from soul-sides, has a nifty mp3 player on it, plays in opera, I go to the page here on divshare plays in opera.. no problem.. yet yesterday I uploaded an mp3 file to test.. it won’t play in opera.
Are there any restrictions.. like does the extension have to be mp3 and not MP3 (capitals).. could the accented characters in the filename cause the problem?
Here’s my file so you can check it http://www.divshare.com/download/187141-eaf
March 5th, 2007 at 7:13 am
I have a problem with this new feature.
It’s very nice and everithing but what if i had uploaded a file and now I want to put it in a folder. There’s no option for that.
Please fix it.
P.S.: another suggestion from me is that it would be great if you had a search wich searched the whole site for a file that is not private.
March 5th, 2007 at 8:55 am
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March 5th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Thanks! Excellent work!
March 5th, 2007 at 10:15 am
For everyone who’s searching for the option to add old files to new folders — we’ll be adding that today
March 5th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
I hope you find a way to make new folders for existing files. Thanks for the wonderful service you do.
March 5th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Is it possible for someone to click to download a whole folder rather than each individual file?
March 5th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
I JUST WANT TO SAY 10X TO THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THIS DIVSHARE
SITE.
This host site is my favorite and i hope this site run well 4 ever!
Im like this update with folders ♥ well done.
And i hope that more great updates like this 1 will come in the Future.
Divshare♥I♥Love♥You ☺
March 5th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
It be nice if we can also delete folders or have a way to delete multiple files at a time. So it make cleaning up my dash board a bit easier.
Thanks for the great service, keep it up!
March 6th, 2007 at 5:52 am
OK, this service is great. You guys have made some excellent improvements. I’m ready for a premium option with FTP access, and to start paying a monthly fee for it!
March 6th, 2007 at 7:48 am
I luv DivShare forever… love the new folder upgrade…
suggection :
- if it possible…DivShare team can also include tag for the file uploads…
- could you guys make some banner/button/anything to make use easier to spread the word “DivShare.com”…
that’s all…
Keep up the god works..opps.. i mean good works..hehe
March 6th, 2007 at 8:49 am
thank you guys
as i said before , it will be nice if we could transfer files from other places of web into divshare.
specially from rapid share
March 6th, 2007 at 10:44 am
To all those who are asking for adding old files to folders - did you people even READ the post you commented on?
March 6th, 2007 at 11:26 am
I like the site and appreciate all the hard work you are putting into evolving the developement of it. There is 1 feature that I do not like is the fact that the “Share this File” link displays, even though the file is marked as Private. I hope that my files will stay online fvr, and that your basic service remains free for public use.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Isn’t it possible to link directly to the folder instead of one of the files?
So you have a link for the folder and the downloader then can choose what to download from that folder…
March 7th, 2007 at 5:41 am
Hi, great “invention” ! But still I have a question (maybe I´m a bit “slow”) … How can I delete an uploaded file or folder ?
Thanks for help
March 7th, 2007 at 5:42 am
Thank you for long await folders feature! Now what I’m waiting for is ability to create sub-folders (folders inside folders), and tags the files for easy search and organize. Thanks again DivShare!
March 7th, 2007 at 7:46 am
Wow! Its great.
Thanks
March 7th, 2007 at 8:46 am
How can I delete the files and the folders…?
How can I create sub-folders?
Thanks!
March 7th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Excellent feature ! , Thanks a lot
March 7th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Every week good news :). Thank you. Ačiū.
March 7th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Divshare é fantastico, nunca nos deixa na mão….sempre com novidades para nos ajudar no dia a dia..
parabéns aos mentores deste belo site..
abraços
spectrumjf for Brasil……….
March 7th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
great, still waiting for remote uploads !!!
Have a nice day
March 8th, 2007 at 1:53 am
fine guys…
but folders are out. tags are in
March 8th, 2007 at 4:05 am
high there,i would like to ad something else it would be verry nice if we could continue an upload after we paused it.sometimes there isn’t enough time uploading a file so we could upload it in terms.thanks.
March 8th, 2007 at 9:30 am
“For everyone who’s searching for the option to add old files to new folders — we’ll be adding that today :)”
yey… today is quite a long time isn’t it? I’m still waiting :/
March 8th, 2007 at 10:33 am
Is there a way to put previously uploaded files into the folders I can now create?
March 8th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Traspler: It has been a long day, huh?
We’ve decided to do a whole Dashboard makeover so it’s taking a little longer than expected — we’re aiming for this weekend now. Thanks for turnin’ up the heat!
March 8th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
That’s fine ! But what about moving old files in a new folder ?
March 8th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
This is a great site and I certainly appreciate the efforts of all involved and wait patiently for the chance to sort my existing files into folders.
March 8th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
I want to know if your site support from resuming download with such a software like DAP?
March 8th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
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March 9th, 2007 at 4:31 am
As you are giving the Dashbord a ‘makeover’ , and folders are now a part of this - any chance that ‘drag-and-drop’ organisation of files between folders could be accomplished on the Dashboard?
One other matter that (I think!) is currently unresolved is making re-naming of image files easier to accomplish when the files only have generic numbering. To accomplish this either the file name needs to be ‘alterable’ on the main view page (where thumbnails can be seen to judge suitable descriptive name for each image) OR thumbnails need to be available (perhaps switch on/off?) on the actual dashboard.
The additional advantage of having mini-thumbnails available on the Dashbord would be that it would make it easier to judge how to organise files between different folders (one could see what thay were!). Combined with drag-and-drop this would be ideal.
March 9th, 2007 at 4:40 am
A “P.S.” - sorry if my post above is covered by what you are already doing (I don’t fully follow what you have said you are doing with thumbnails). The above was just to reinforce what it would be nice to achieve.
March 9th, 2007 at 11:30 am
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March 9th, 2007 at 11:35 am
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March 10th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
keep in touch divshare………..
March 12th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
It’s turning great so far. I just have three more suggestions that weren’t mentioned already (I think):
- It’d be great if files marked private are not shown at all when a person downloads another file from the same folder. I’d just rather not have people know those private files even exist
- Can the filename length be extended? Some of my files have long names, and they’re being cut off pretty quickly.
- I notice that when I just open the download page and not download anything, that counts toward a download. Is it possible to just track the number of full downloads for a file, rather than the page load of the download page?
Thanks for the great work! I’m loving the service so far
March 12th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
It might be nice if a warning was put in place “before” hand to let users know NOT to name a folder over 50 characters before uploading a file. Because if you try to name a folder over 50 characters in lenght and your upload completes, it returns an error about too long folder name and your upload fails. That’s really annoying having to upload a file again because of that. >.
March 13th, 2007 at 4:25 am
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va hay noi voi toi dieu gi do
March 13th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Hi, i have some ideeas that can help to improve acessibility ..
1. The folders must be alphabeticaly organized, to try to look for something in the right place or .. in the right order, that’s because, if i have many folders, i just have to loook over every foleder until i find the correct one …
2. If i check that “private file” option, i dont think that share e-mail adres, is neccesary, because it’s private, and if you can to remove the default sample addres e-mail, a few times it has uploaded all, but the e-mail address was incorrect so.. the upload failed.
3. For upload manager, i you could just make some interface for the files waiting to be uploaded, in this case, the problem is that i i’ve seen too late that i’m uploading the same file twice, so, i can cancel only the entire upload, it would be better, if i’m removing what file i want ..
4. The folders must have som option to be deleted
5. Subfolders can be a great option, let’s say i have Pictures .. there is a problem, i have pictures with many things, so ..in the pictures folder, i can create “My Cat”,”Desktop screenshots” … etc
..
6. If i have some pictures in a folder, some option somewhere like “View all pictures in a gallery”
March 13th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
How about a file splitter for uploading/downloading large files (200 mb+ …or whatever your FINAL max limit will be for files) and a file converter (zip to rar, mp3 to wmp,, etc.) maybe?
March 13th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Would be great create folder for store existing files on it.
March 14th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
hello this site is very very good
March 15th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
A+++
This SITE IS USER-FRIENDLY IN SO MANY WAYS!!!! A+++
Thanks!! Keep up the work!! and KEEP GROWING!!!
A+++++++++
A+++++++++
March 16th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
THIS SITE IS GREAT!!! DIVSHARE 4 EVER!!!
I like this new folder update!
KEEP GROWING!!! YOU ARE DOING A GREAT WORK!!!
March 17th, 2007 at 4:06 am
Sorry but I have to say its suck as I cannot successful to upload a file even it is just 6Mb.
March 17th, 2007 at 5:57 am
Great Site! Just a small suggestion, I’d like to see the folder function extended to being able to create new folders to organise existing files that I’ve already uploaded but haven’t sorted.
March 17th, 2007 at 9:04 am
hello
March 17th, 2007 at 10:31 am
i want, I want, I Want, I WANT!!!!! damn, give ‘em somethin’ for free and they have an endless list of things you didn’t give them! and there’s no point making excuses about why you haven’t provided that *necessary* functionality cause nobody’s listening! too busy asking. (ok, and providing useful user feedback … sometimes.)
well i for one feel i’m getting my money’s worth! although i don’t use the site much i very much like what you’ve built so far. your rapid dev cycle is impressive but don’t worry the inevitable deceleration inherent in such wont be mentioned again (by me).
oh yeah, when you get a chance, it would be nice (and easy for you guys) to stream audio files other than MP3 say oggVorbis for good quality at low bitrates in a non proprietary format? we ALL want.
March 17th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
why the administrator(’s) do not answer our question’s?
March 17th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Can we create new folders to put existing files into - or canwe only do that as part of upload process?
March 17th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
Amazing. Someone’s making his family quite proud. Everyone get on board and be part of the growing global excitement.
March 18th, 2007 at 9:39 am
Hello!! It’s so nice to be one of this web member’s
March 19th, 2007 at 3:00 am
This web’s very wonderful,I hope we can do some other functions as move file between folder…
March 19th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Almost all my files (music and games) were removed!…These are files that I own LEGALLY! I thought this was a place where I could back up/store my files. Seems I was wrong??? NOT HAPPY!!!
March 19th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Sandra: Received your email, but it was sent from an “unknown sender” with no return address and no account info provided.
While we do allow people to store their files, only files they legally own the rights to. Posting files to be shared is infringing on copyrights when you post a CD or software.
I hope you’ll shoot us an email so we can review your account and make sure nothing was removed by error.
March 19th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Edit: posted login info to the public.
March 20th, 2007 at 8:44 am
hi
March 22nd, 2007 at 3:25 pm
Hi,
I have a 3 Mbps cable connection yet I’m uploading at 28 Kbps, am I doing something wrong?
Is there some setting I need to change?
Is it possible to, and if so, how do I upload files at an acceptable rate?
Thanks,
Rob F.V.
March 24th, 2007 at 9:54 am
Very nice, i have been waiting for this. Keep up the hellagood job!!
March 24th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
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ههرچهن ههمیشه ئاواتی ئهمه له دڵمان دایه به ههندێک له خزمهتکاریهکانتان دیارده کوردیهکانیش بگرێتهوه
دیسان سپاس ههر بژین
i wished tank you by kurdish language for your servises
kurdish
March 24th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
tanks
March 24th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
I’m very happy with this website.
I love it.
xxx
March 26th, 2007 at 8:13 am
thanks for this good upgrade but why the download speed is too low these days.. please solve this problem
April 7th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Someone tel me how to create subfolders plss….Thanks in advance…