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Digitalscrapper
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7 years ago
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Auto-upload of files from SD card I link to my computer.

When I put my SD card into my computer, Dropbox automatically uploads the files onto the computer. How do I stop this from happening? I want to determine whether or not the files will be uploaded.  ...
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  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    7 years ago

    Hey there Digitalscrapper - sorry to hear you're having issues with our automatic camera uploads feature.

    At first, you can disable the camera uploads feature by following the steps outlined in this Help Center article: https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/photos/camera-uploads-overview 

    As for the renaming of your files, you'll need to do it manually at this point as there's no way for us to rename your files in bulk for you and the format of the filanames you mentioned is the default one when utilizing our camera uploads feature. To preserve their filenames you'd need to import them to your computer first and then manually upload them to your Dropbox account (by moving or copying them inside your Dropbox Folder). 

    I hope this clears things up and I'm always a post away should you have any more questions. 

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Digitalscrapper
New member | Level 2
7 years ago

When I insert my SD card into my computer, the image files automatically upload to Dropbox. I have not found anywhere that I can prevent this from happening automatically. I want to determine where the files go.  I saw something in the community that you can shut this off but have not yet found this option when I sign into Dropbox. 

Also, when the image files are uploaded, the file names are changed from IMG_xxxx to the date and time the photo was taken. This is totally unacceptable to me!!!! I track my photos by the IMG_xxxx names.  How can I change the names back to the original file name? It makes no sense to me that Dropbox would change the file names. I am truly ready to delete Dropbox and select another app due to this. 

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Walter
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7 years ago

Hey there Digitalscrapper - how  are you today?

I've just moved your post under your original inquiry to keep things neat around our Community and have all the relevant information under the same place.

Have you been able to check any of my suggestions (posted above)? 

Let me know here when you get the chance and we'll take it from there.

Thanks in advance and have a lovely weekend until we speak again. 

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