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BoxyBeat's avatar
BoxyBeat
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

Stop renaming my files! (on auto phone upload)

Video files ( possibly photos too ) get renamed on automatic upload from the phone to Dropbox. There must be a really good reason for Dropbox to rename files and I'd like to hear it. It's very an...
Android
Camera uploads
Mobile
sync
Daphne's avatar
Daphne
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6 years ago

Hi there BoxyBeat, This seems very interesting indeed! :thinking:

I tried replicating this on my side and here are my findings.

With videos taken on an Android device, the file is automatically named with the date and time at the start of the video, as you mentioned.

However, when checking the details of the file (from the "..." in the top right when viewing in the gallery), the timestamp recorded there shows the end time of the video.

With automatic camera uploads the app names the file according to the timestamp on the file. This fits with the behaviour you described above.

When I tried this by manually uploading the video, it retained the name of the file rather than uploading according to the timestamp on the video.

Can you let me know if the same differences in file name and timestamp in the video details from your Gallery? Would you mind sharing too which OS version your device is?

Looking forward to your reply!

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