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Forum Discussion
How to move photos into folders?
Hello How do I move photos from my camera upload folder to another folder?
suemc wrote:
... it only works if the images are already in the "files" section. These photos I want to move to folders are from a camera upload and are in the photos section.The Photos section isn't a separate area where photos are stored. Photos just shows you ALL of the photos that are in your account, from all folders. You can't move things out of Photos because it's just a way to view all of the photos in your account. Instead, you need to find the photos in the Files section and move them to the folders that you want them in. Any photos that are automatically uploaded to your account would usually be found in the Camera Uploads folder. It's from this folder (or others) that you would move them.
This is the same as using the Photos page on the Dropbox website, though the website also includes an option to "show in folder" so you can easily move from a photo on the Photos page to the folder that it resides in.
This is not making much sense to me either. I can move photos into an album, but that's not what I want to do. How can I select multiple photos and move them into a shared folder?
Ok, I figured it out, but wow. That's an eye exercise. You pretty much have to know which photos are which based on a tiny thumbnail. Would have like to be able to do this directly from the main photos selection rather than viewing them in their actual folder.
Hello. I'm asking the same question that Sue is. Looks like Sue may have figured it out. I also want to move photos- individual ones or groups of them, into a shared folder. How can I do this? I can see how to put them into albums-but then how is the album put into a shared folder?
Ex., if I click on the 'photos/timeline', I Can then choose one or a bunch of photos- they are all check marked in blue. How then do I place these photos into a specific 'file' that has been created and shared? My 'files' all contain folders that are shared for my purpose. I need the photos to be placed into these shared folders. Thanks!
Ex., if I click on the 'photos/timeline', I Can then choose one or a bunch of photos- they are all check marked in blue. How then do I place these photos into a specific 'file' that has been created and shared? My 'files' all contain folders that are shared for my purpose. I need the photos to be placed into these shared folders. Thanks!
I have to agree with Vvian and others ... why in heavens name has Dropbox become so user-unfriendly! Moving a file in the web app from one folder to another used to be a piece of cake before they introduced this "Photo timeline "model. Everything to do with photos has now become a pain ... or sometimes simply impossible! I joined Dropbox right at the outset precisely because it was so easy to do things online ... but perhaps it is time to move on ...
- Mark
Super User II
Personally Anthony I find it so so so much easier to just pretend the Photos Timeline doesnt exist - as that is about as useful as it is!
Once you remember that the Timeline is just a screengrab of all your images and not much else its easier to process.
