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Cathy22's avatar
Cathy22
New member | Level 1
6 days ago

My photos are not importing to Dropbox in order. There is no way to sort them by date created.

I am not storing photos on my computer so I'm only using your website to upload photos from my phone. I imported over 6000 photos last night and they are completely random, no order whatsoever! I wan...
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CharlesDub44's avatar
CharlesDub44
New member | Level 1
5 days ago

I have the same issue with 40,000 photos since Picasa was made defunct by Google.

Date Modified doesn't cut it and it uses the upload date to sort. . If a Date Created could be applied as a filter I would be delighted. I have photos going back a long time. If I upload them I am in a random space that is painful to navigate. Dropbox, if you can provide this facility it would be fabulous. 

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