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Camera Uploads - change location, more functions.
Allow changing the location of the Camera Uploads folder (and its name, as many suggested before). Allow automatic folder organization based on file origin (or any folder organization). 1. The Camera Uploads folder is anchored to the top of the file directory. If you try to move it, Dropbox will re-create it in the original location. Cloud services should make it a rule to never force any folder locations. Even OneDrive, for all its faults, allows me to move its equivalent of Camera Uploads anywhere I want (but it will stubbornly keep creating Chats with AI folders, even though I never chat with Copilot). It is a minor thing, but it is annoying to see Camera Uploads outside of my Full Media Archive folder. 2. Camera Uploads shouldn't be a landfill. I personally generate about 250 videos and 10,000 photos a year across mobile devices. Untangling this rats' nest at the end of the year is a nightmare. Allow at least some grouping based on file origin. OneDrive lets you group by month —it's not much, but it helps. pCloud groups by origin folder on each respective device: phone/images/WhatsApp, phone/videos/WhatsApp, iPad/images, and so on. Kudos for at least being smart enough not to back up files twice once you move them out of the folder. Other clouds require setting "available online only," purging the media on the phone, and then moving the files without creating duplicates.
One Click Backup Restore
Hello! I was under the impression that I could restore my whole backup with one click when switching to a new MacBook. It turns out, after many bugs (such as only synching one folder, and not giving me options for the others), it is not possible. I also tried downloading the folders individually - and I am met with the error " Attempted to zip too many files" particularly when trying to download and restore my Lightroom Catalog folder. I am going to revert to using offline backup via Time Machine and thankfully I still have access to my old laptop, but I am a bit disappointed to see how tricky Dropbox Backup turns out to be. Hope this helps develop solutions and a better system for the future
Be able to change Dropbox backup folders names on individual accounts
Add possibility of rename Backup folders. If you have only one computer, it go fine, but if you have more than one, it ends being very confussing. Due iCloud Drive issues, I've changed all of my Macs "synchronized" Desktop and Documents to Dropbox. However, take a look to the picture: It is very difficult to guess what is what. With the possibility to rename them, I could have named "My iMac", "My MBP 13", "My MBP 15". Very easy to see what is what. (As a workaround, we can change to detail view, but could be more easy for all of us be able to change the names).
