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Rudra S.
9 years agoNew member | Level 1
changing the location of Camera upload folder
While uploading the pictures to Dropbox by default is uploading to Camera upload folder. How can I change the default location as I have 2 Iphone and would like to synchronize the pictures to Dropbo...
- 9 years ago
All devices linked to your account will upload to the Camera Uploads folder. This cannot be changed, and there is no way to differentiate between the photos/videos uploaded from multiple devices.
JoaoVr
New member | Level 2
Hey Everyone
It would be nice if we could change the location of Camera Uploads in our phones APPs.
There are many senarios it would be good:
a) People that want diferent king of organization in their dropbox
b) People that want to hide this kind of stuff
c) People that share a dropbox account
Etc,
Can you please add this option in the future?
Thanks in advance
kcammack
8 years agoNew member | Level 2
My suggestion is one that others have made. I understand that the camera upload folder is fixed by design. IMHO, this is bad design. In a modern programming environment, this should just be an environmental variable that can be set at any time. Tying specific devices to specific folders is just a switch statement.
Please implement something that allows me to control my folders. This issue is the primary reason I do not use the dropbox auto upload and instead use other tools to manage photos and data.
As an aside, since dropbox is integrated into the OS, why can't I just choose any folder on my system and sync it to a dropbox folder without having to move it into the dropbox? Again this really limits the utility of dropbox, and is a reason why it isn't our go-to enterprise backup tool.
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