Imperative: Camera Uploads Update

Improvement of the points:

Point 1: As of right now, if someone, regardless if it’s the folder’s owner or shared entity, were to change the name of the "Camera Uploads" folder to something else, let's say to "Andrew's Content," Dropbox is programed to create a whole entire new folder, again named "Camera Uploads," and it will completely cancel future automatic uploads into the original folder, resulting in 2 separate folders, one new one named “Camera Uploads” and one old one that was once named “Camera Uploads” but is now named whatever the folder name got changed to, where the old one no longer has automatic uploads. This can lead users to become very confused, is very inefficient, and is what can be seen as an error in Dropbox’s algorithm from my point of view. 

To help with the understanding of Point 2, let’s recognize that a normal Shared Folder is slightly different from a Camera Uploads Shared Folder.

Point 2: If a business, or anyone for that matter, has multiple people sharing their "Camera Uploads" folder to them, that business has no way to distinguish between which "Camera Uploads" folder belongs to whom without first clicking into each one, nor is the business/entity able to change the name of the folder for themselves on their end to make it easier for organizational purposes. (If they were to change the name of the folder, then refer to Point 1) I think that this is very inefficient, cumbersome, and is an important issue.

Point 3: When people want to set up automatic uploads from multiple albums in their phone named, let's call them 'Content 1,' Content 2,' and 'Content 3,' and have them saved in either the same and/or separate folders in Dropbox, let’s call the separate ones ‘Dropped 1,’ ‘Dropped 2,’ and ‘Dropped 3,’ they can't because it is not even a feature.

Shared Folders can indeed be renamed or moved without impacting or changing anything. However, if a Camera Uploads shared folder was renamed by anyone including the entity that the folder is shared to, automatic uploads will completely cancel on the sharer's end. The program on the sharer's end will also create a whole entire new folder, again named "Camera Uploads," resulting in 2 separate folders, one named "Camera Uploads" and the other to whatever name that the entity renamed the original Camera Uploads folder to, where any future automatic uploads will now be going into the newly automatically created folder instead of the old one

We are able to change any regular Shared Folder on our end, but if we did that for a shared Camera Uploads folder, it would unfortunately cancel the automatic uploads process on the other person's end

Andrew88 wrote:

If a business has multiple people sharing their "Camera Uploads" folder to them, that business has no way to distinguish between which "Camera Uploads" folder belongs to whom, nor is the business able to change the name of the folder for themselves on their end. This is a major problem.

Have you tried that? I dont have any shared with me, but, Shared Folders can be renamed or moved at will without impacting or changing the initial persons folder name or location. I am not aware that this would work any differently. 

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