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Dropbox photos not staying 100% in chronological order
Hi! Basically, it's exactly what the title says. It's got nothing to do with the date I uploaded the pictures, but the file names themselves. For example, I've been scanning, cataloguing and organisi...
- Thanks for those screenshots, it's very helpful indeed li123.
From what I could see in the folder you're having this issue with, it seems this is because the images 101 - 160 have the same date (1991-05-26) as the images up to number 40.
The images 41 and after have a different date which is the reason why they come afterwards (1991-06-26).
Was this maybe a typo and the dates are supposed to be the same?
Dear Jay at Dropbox. This has to be the most life-wasting reply I've ever read. How long do you think it would take a human being to put numerically chronological digits in front of Apple's weird file naming system (presumably done as an encryptive method to defy people using non-Apple softwares?)
I have a similar dilemma as I am trying to get my daughter's holiday snaps from her iPhone into a Dropbox folder of our choice. She doesn't have sufficient memory left on her Laptop PC to do this in one go so we are attempting to find an alternative approach. Please assist. It is the .jpeg files that are the major issue - the .jpg files are seemingly okay as they are titled in the format of :
" Photo date, timestamp "
whereas the .jpeg files have the weird (Apple?) format of :
a random mix of upper case letters & numbers in the following sequences:
" 8 DIGITS-4DIGITS-4DIGITS-4DIGITS-12DIGITS"
I have a similar dilemma as I am trying to get my daughter's holiday snaps from her iPhone into a Dropbox folder of our choice. She doesn't have sufficient memory left on her Laptop PC to do this in one go so we are attempting to find an alternative approach. Please assist. It is the .jpeg files that are the major issue - the .jpg files are seemingly okay as they are titled in the format of :
" Photo date, timestamp "
whereas the .jpeg files have the weird (Apple?) format of :
a random mix of upper case letters & numbers in the following sequences:
" 8 DIGITS-4DIGITS-4DIGITS-4DIGITS-12DIGITS"
Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHey BrianP, thanks for your feedback here.
Have you tried manually uploading the photos through the (+) icon in the Dropbox app?
The 8 DIGITS-4DIGITS-4DIGITS-4DIGITS-12DIGITS format shouldn't appear when the images are uploaded to Dropbox.
I have over 50,000 photos at the moment ,so, NO.....manually uploading is not the answer
