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Dropbox using (2) different Naming Conventions and Date Formats
Hello,
Recently Dropbox has been uploading photos with different file names and date formats. Example: some files will be named "2022-04-07 17.07.01" and others will be named "Photo Apr 07 4 2...
Hi delraybeachplasticsurgery, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
If you're using the camera upload feature, all images will have the '2022-04-07 17.07.01' format, whereas images uploaded via the manual upload feature, or by dragging and dropping, will have the original filename on them, which could be similar to the 'Photo Apr 07 4 29 40' you saw.
If you need any further assistance, please let me know!
Excuse me, but you’re saying that pictures uploaded from the camera are named in a way and pictures uploaded manually from the app are named in a different way.
But we already noticed that. Can you kindly comment on the Why??
what is the logic in that? The pictures end up all out of order! It’s a mess!
is there any benefit or reason for the naming format being different? Is there an option in settings to chose wich format we want??
Calvin2DBX
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi oceanside22,
Thanks for reaching out!
Glad to clarify about the automated name changes.
Files you add, manually, will keep whatever names they had originally. There is no automation, unlike when Camera Uploads is used, so they don't change, unless you add a custom name rule to the destination folder yourself.
You can specify a format for automating name changes in any folder you like, with the steps from here: https://help.dropbox.com/organize/naming-conventions
Hope that helps!
Thank you for responding. I tried this, but it only worked for uploads via dropbox.com,
when I upload via the ipad app, names are still “photo august 17 2023… “ any ideas what could be wrong?
also when I try to apply the “set naming convention” to a folder that contains folders, that option is not there, do I have to do it for each individual folder?
thanks
- Jay
Hi oceanside22, could you clarify again, are you using the automatic camera upload feature, or manually uploading images via the iPad?
Each folder has their own naming conventions, which aren't inherited from the parent folder.
Manually uploading with the ipad app, names them different than uploading via dropbox.com
is there not universal setting for ALL uploads?? Seems logic. Why would we want different naming for different devices??
I already tried several times, different folders, but the naming convention doesn’t affect Video Files. See attached photo.why?? Is this a bug?? Am I the only one with this issue???
- I’ve been trying for a while but it just doesnt work. Am I the only one having this issue? Please let me know of you got this to work and how please.
I’m organizing photos using a naming convention, so every file gets renamed with the date taken. It works perfectly but not for videos. Every photo gets renamed but the videos are not, even though the notifications say they have been renamed. (I’ve done many tests with only one video or a few in a folder, and it says the files were renamed but they’re not) This error only happens with video files.
I’ve tried different folders, uploading from different sources (web,app,mobile).
Can anybody help??
The naming convention I need is “2023-09-16 etc” “date taken”.
I’ve tried different ones and none of them work for video files.
Please help.
