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XLRotor
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

In dropbox.com/Camera Uploads, file names with colons are not synched to Windows

At Dropbox.com in my Camera Uploads folder I have over 900 jpg files which contain a colon (i.e. : ) in their file names.  For example 20161202-15:51 - 15.51.19.jpg It seems these files will not sy...
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XLRotor's avatar
XLRotor
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

This is an update to my method.  For the copy step, don't use the ... button to the right of the file list.  Use the ... button above the file list.

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Jay
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3 years ago

Rich is correct, since the camera upload feature wouldn't keep any colons in the filenames, and since only Apple devices can read them, most likely the images were imported manually into Dropbox from a Mac or iPhone.

 

The naming convention would be a workaround, however, you might lose the similar naming format for the other images that are named correctly.

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