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I'm uploading photos from my memory card to Dropbox without transferring to my computer first. I have years of photo cards that I am uploading to be able to better organize.
I can see the files on my card reader in my window folders with the correct dates for each photo , however when I copy these photos to drop box, all files become today's date vs the date the photo file was created/last modified. Is there any way to manage this?
I'm wondering if drop box may have been a poor choice for what I'm trying to do. Appreciate any advice.
Thanks!
Jane
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Hi! I have the same problem as Kar. I have tried uploading old videos from my desktop using the dropbox desktop app and the "Date Modofied" field on ALL of them has been reset to the date of upload and NONE of the metadata was retained as far as I can tell. It is a real shame since I unfortunately deleted the original files after uploading to dropbox. I would recommend NOT deleting the original files until you have verified that you have retained original dates, if it is even possible. I'm glad I only uploaded around 20 videos before I realized that information appeared to be lost but it's a real bummer since the whole point of using dropbox was to open up space on my hard drive and now I feel like I still can't delete the files even after they have been uploaded.
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Same happening to me - Uploading photos to Dropbox (directly to web version) is resetting all dates. I have too many files to run Dropbox application on local harddrive.
This seems to be an extremely poor feature of Dropbox
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Hi Jane,
Thanks for the reply. When I click on the Selective Sync link you sent I get the following message: "You do not have sufficient privileges for this resource or its parent to perform this action. Click your browser's Back button to continue. " However I have read about this feature and don't think it solves my issue...
Basically, le'ts say I have 5GB space free on my laptop and I have 100GB of photos, videos, media projects etc that I want to backup to my Dropbox account. I also need to retain the creation date of all of my files. If I understand the Selective Sync option, it seems it allows me to select folders in my dropbox (cloud storgae) to sync to my local drive. I want to do the opposite. I want to select my 100GB media folder on my local drive and have it sync to Dropbox so that I can delete the folder from my local drive.
I hope that makes sense and there is a solution.
Regards,
Liam
Jane
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That's working perfectly Jane - thanks a million!
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