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Choosing which folder to add camera uploads

Choosing which folder to add camera uploads

Speakender
New member | Level 2

With multilpe users on my dropbox account, I need a feature where I can select which folder mobile uploads are directed to. My wife and I both use our phones for work, and we take a lot of pictures. Dropbox currently mixes all the photos we both take into a combined folder. I would like to have a serparate folder for each of us.

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Jay
Dropbox Staff

This idea has been closed as it has reached the end of the Share an Idea process.

Status changed to: Closed
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Jane
Dropbox Staff
Hey @infinitejest, no worries! 
 
While you can Move/Copy the content you’d wish to store elsewhere from the Camera Uploads folder (once synced there) through the folder options on your right-hand side 💬 menu next to the "Share" button, there isn’t currently a built-in flow to automatically re-direct your Camera Uploads to a different folder. That being said, have you by any chance checked whether the steps outlined here are what you’re looking for? 
 
In any event, thanks for devoting a bit of your time to write us here that you’d be interested in seeing that in Dropbox, I’ve already made sure to include your comment here on my internal report. Happy October! :umbrella: 
tgsachse
Explorer | Level 4

+1 to this post. I keep my photos (over 250gb) in a structured archive and I'd like to automatically save photos off of my phone into a designated "unprocessed" folder (which I then manually process and add to the archive later). Also the name "Camera Uploads" breaks the naming scheme for my entire dropbox folder (all lowercase, single word folders). It's a little thing, but it's annoying ;O

jbwhite85
New member | Level 2

Hello,

I'm sure I am not the first person to request this / mention it, however, the majority of people with a paid Dropbox subscription (like myself) probably have mutiple users on their account (ie: Husband/Wife/Kids), and one thing we want to protect are our photos.  The Camera Uploads feature is great...except when people do not coordinate their uploads.  You end up having a LOT of photos that are from multiple devices, and there is no way to determine which photo came from which device unless you physically go through each picture file.

I am very big on digital organization, and I like to keep my photos separate from my wife's photos, and vice-versa.  If there is a way to implement adding sub-folders inside of the main Camera Uploads folder so that way you can physically tell each device which sub-folder to upload into, it will make life WAY easier when it comes to re-organizing the photos onto the main HDD.  


Thank you in advance,
J.B. White

 

Daphne
Dropbox Staff

This idea is going to need a bit more support.

We've updated the status to encourage more users to back you up!

Status changed to: Gathering Support
NRV
New member | Level 2
Would love to have this feature for flexibility in workflow and organization, including choosing different upload folders for different devices. I see this request in the support forum, but not on the request side.
 
 
Changing the location of Camera upload folder
Rudra S.
 
Rudra S.New member | Level 1
New member | Level 1

While uploading the pictures to Dropbox by default is uploading to Camera upload folder. How can I change the default location as I have 2 Iphone  and would like to synchronize the pictures to Dropbox by enabling the camera upload option. If the pictures are going to be uploaded default in camera upload folder how can I differentiate the pictures from both Iphone. 

really appreciate if I can get some on this topic.

RodNaka
New member | Level 2

A feature for this already exists on Google Photos. The idea is to add a menu in the app that shows which folders with images and videos your cellphone will upload from. There is a toggle for every folder and it being ON means pictures in it will be synced into the Camera Uploads folder.

 

For example, maybe I want my saved pictures from Facebook not synced, my Boomerang videos synced, my Whatsapp pictures not synced. You get the idea how this would be useful.

 

Not all apps that save images to my phone save them to the camera roll folder, but also not all folders that have images are images I want synced and uploaded.

Olias03
Explorer | Level 3

Hello there. 
I just find it surprising that I can not select the picture folders that I want to automatically sync with my dropbox. 

Could you guys please implent an option for the mobile apps to select the albums to be uploaded? 

Nowadays we have so much digital trash (whastapp images, screenshots, etc...) and I dont want any of that to be automatically uploaded to my dropbox. 

Christine77
New member | Level 2

It would be super if Dropbox could upload your pictures from ALL folders in your phone's Gallery, for example WhatsApp pics, Downloads, Facebook pics, Family pics, etc, or give you the choice of folders to upload. Onedrive has this option, where you can choose exactly which folders you want Onedrive to upload, but I do not want to make use of 2 cloud services.  Please look into this - I am sure there are other users who would love this feature as well!  

dladders
Explorer | Level 4

The standard auto upload is great but if you bought the family share package you can’t actually auto upload to that folder, ( I can’t find a way anyway ).

It would be handy to have a choice of where your auto upload points to on the service. Not just the persons space (free) but a handy added measure to choose the space it goes into.

lugeo
New member | Level 2

Has there been any change to this?  Changing the location for your default phones upload folder should be a basic preference.

 

 

https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-files-folders/changing-the-location-of-Camera-upload-folder/...

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