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Camera upload from different phones into different folders
Hello, I have created a new folder "Camera upload Karla" where I want my wifes iPhone to automatically upload photos to. This seems not to be so easy, as Dropbox on a phone will only upload to "Cam...
I do not believe this is necessarily a new suggestion, or at least parts of what I would like to see improved in Dropbox I have seen asked many times on these forums before.
I understand that on all devices using dropbox with camera uploads enabled, all photos will be synched in path = \Dropbox\Camera Uploads\
Though I have never liked the location of this folder in the first place because it does not match my organization structure, I've lived with it and have when convenient been manually moving photos from within the Camera Uploads folder to other locations within my Dropbox.
I think that at first, it'd be nice if we could specify the path for which photos would be uploaded to dropbox respective of each device. Make it an advanced option and have the default set to "\Camera Uploads\" as it already is, but i have a lot of devices with varying camera quality (tablets, cellphones, etc.) that I use for different purpose that'd i'd like to keep separated by default.
Additionally a more advance feature that I'd really benefit from is if there could be a form of "conditional syncing" or something for which there could maybe be a set of optional rules that would dictate how photos are uploaded. These could be implemented as device specific options, cross platform, or something else. In my case I would like it if say I could implement profiles such that:
if (distance_between_photo_and_work(newfile)<1mile) or (network_is_work_wifi) or (during_work_hours):
path = '\Dropbox\Camera Uploads\Work\'
else:
if (isvideo(newfile)):
path = '\Dropbox\Camera Uploads\Videos\'
else:
path = '\Dropbox\Camera Uploads\Photos\'
upload(newFile,path)
This might be something I may try and work on my own end and periodically scan my camera uploads folder from my desktop and make adjustments, but it'd be nice to know if there already is a reasonable workaround for this or if for any reason why this feature can't or won't be implemented.
