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KEAlt
9 months agoNew member | Level 1
Naming conventions are sometimes buggy in subfolders.
I have a parent folder with an automation that's supposed to rename every file in its subfolders to a certain format, but it's been very buggy on if it actually works or not... I don't know if it's ...
KEAlt
9 months agoNew member | Level 1
I have the convention in my parent folder as
Date (DD-MM-YYYY-HH.MM)
Sender
Keyword '_'
Parent folder name
Keyword '_'
Filename
The problem that got my attention was one child folder had files being renamed as
"date - (blank, sender was supposed to be here) _ parentFolderName _ sender - filename"
I had a different child folder that used the correct convention.
I did notice that the file requests themselves have naming conventions... I set all my file requests to have the naming convention I want, and that works... but I'm going to be making a lot of file requests, and having to set the naming convention every time is going to be a chore. It should just use the parent folder's convention.
Also, I'm not really sure what the difference is between a naming convention and an automation? My parent folder only has the option for an automation that renames everything. It seems to do pretty much the same thing?
Also also, I don't know why but this site keeps deleting my posts as I'm almost done typing them out and I have to start over... It's happened like 4 times now. It's driving me crazy!! I have to start typing everything in notepad and pasting it in!
Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
9 months agoAfter testing this some more, when you apply a naming convention, it becomes an automation immediately for that folder, and subfolders if you've enabled that feature.
Could you attach a screenshot showing the options you get on the parent folder?


- TKEotK9 months agoExplorer | Level 4
It only has the automation option, not the other 2...
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