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user71
Explorer | Level 3
5 months ago

Automation won't apply to existing files. How can I achieve that?

I have a directory with a very large number of files (several thousand) that I only access online. All of the files have names based on their date of creation (eg 2025-07-01-7:00.txt). I would like t...
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user71
Explorer | Level 3
5 months ago

Ok thanks, it might be helpful to have this pointed out in the notification, or not permit the automation if it is not going to work. 

If Dropbox won't provide this automation, is there some other way to organize online files in bulk? For example, equivalents to command-line operations like

mkdir July

mv 2025-07*.wav  July

Thanks

 

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Hannah
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5 months ago

Hi there, user71.

The truth is that through Dropbox you could go about this with files in smaller batches, but at the moment there's no other alternative or feature like using a command-line operation.

I've passed your comments along to our team, though, and made sure your feedback went to the appropriate people.

If there's anything else we can help you with, please let us know!

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