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delraybeachplasticsurgery
New member | Level 2
4 years ago
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Dropbox using (2) different Naming Conventions and Date Formats

Hello,

 

Recently Dropbox has been uploading photos with different file names and date formats. Example: some files will be named "2022-04-07 17.07.01"  and others will be named "Photo Apr 07 4 29 40". All photos were taken on the same device (iPhone). Also, all photos are uploading to multiple computers in an office, is this a syncing issue or something else? I have already gone into settings and set Date Format preferences to "YYYY-MM-DD".

 

Thank you 🙂 

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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    4 years ago

    Hi delraybeachplasticsurgery, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

     

    If you're using the camera upload feature, all images will have the '2022-04-07 17.07.01' format, whereas images uploaded via the manual upload feature, or by dragging and dropping, will have the original filename on them, which could be similar to the 'Photo Apr 07 4 29 40' you saw.

     

    If you need any further assistance, please let me know!

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  • micawber's avatar
    micawber
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago

    Okay, but WHY does Dropbox use two different naming conventions? And why is there not yet and automated feature to rename the files from one naming convention to the other? 

     

    Please please! 

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