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Camera upload from different phones into different folders
Hello,
I have created a new folder "Camera upload Karla" where I want my wifes iPhone to automatically upload photos to.
This seems not to be so easy, as Dropbox on a phone will only upload to "Camera Upload" folder. Is this correct?
How can I make her iPhone upload automatically to the new folder?
Thank you
Hi Thomas!
If the picture sis different but has the exact same name, an appendix (1) will be added to the name so that we sync both of them :)
@Nick: thanks for this feedback! We value users input extremely so thanks for taking the time to give us this feedback :)
- Rich
Super User II
Cross-linking for reference:
- https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/202134039-How-to-tell-a-device-to-upload-to-a-unique-folder-
- https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/203741575-iPhone-Camera-Upload-to-specific-folder
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Hi, please add this feature to the paid version. We really need this. Thanks for taking this into consideration and I really hope to see it soon available on my wife's iPhone and mine! Thank you.
Andybecjess, this is not a useful solution for me, I have two phone a tablet and a camera my wife has the same and kids has phones, if I have to create a new account for each device this will be a big hassel to maintain. Luckly I have found a seperate app which solved the issue but it would be much appriciated if it was build in to dropbox. Im considering if I really want to continue with my payed dropbox because of this
I do not believe this is necessarily a new suggestion, or at least parts of what I would like to see improved in Dropbox I have seen asked many times on these forums before.
I understand that on all devices using dropbox with camera uploads enabled, all photos will be synched in path = \Dropbox\Camera Uploads\
Though I have never liked the location of this folder in the first place because it does not match my organization structure, I've lived with it and have when convenient been manually moving photos from within the Camera Uploads folder to other locations within my Dropbox.
I think that at first, it'd be nice if we could specify the path for which photos would be uploaded to dropbox respective of each device. Make it an advanced option and have the default set to "\Camera Uploads\" as it already is, but i have a lot of devices with varying camera quality (tablets, cellphones, etc.) that I use for different purpose that'd i'd like to keep separated by default.
Additionally a more advance feature that I'd really benefit from is if there could be a form of "conditional syncing" or something for which there could maybe be a set of optional rules that would dictate how photos are uploaded. These could be implemented as device specific options, cross platform, or something else. In my case I would like it if say I could implement profiles such that:
if (distance_between_photo_and_work(newfile)<1mile) or (network_is_work_wifi) or (during_work_hours):
path = '\Dropbox\Camera Uploads\Work\'
else:
if (isvideo(newfile)):
path = '\Dropbox\Camera Uploads\Videos\'
else:
path = '\Dropbox\Camera Uploads\Photos\'
upload(newFile,path)
This might be something I may try and work on my own end and periodically scan my camera uploads folder from my desktop and make adjustments, but it'd be nice to know if there already is a reasonable workaround for this or if for any reason why this feature can't or won't be implemented.
Simple really guys & gals if you are all using different devices. Photos only not videos. In the camera uploads folder on PC right click go to group by select more and tick camera model. This will split between different device models. It would be nice if Dropbox allowed the preservation of filenames as prefixes per device could then be set (with most 3rd party camera apps). Better still in enabling camera uploads on the device it added the device name as a tag.
I see this feature has been requested for a few years. Do they listen to things like this? It doesnt seem it would be hard, take the phone name and create a folder for each phone on the account. I'm a paying user and would love to see this implemented!
+1
The easiest way would be to create a separate new account and share that folder to your main account. that way you have visibility of both on your main account.. Every now and again you can move the files from the shared folder into a permanent folder on your main account if you have more space so that the new account doesn't fill up.
Ok, I was not aware if it alowed to mention here but I use photosync, it is not perfect but it is easy to specify a specific folder to backup to. But I would much rather have it as a part of dropbox so i did not have to give a thirdparty app rights to move my pictures
