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Camera Uploads on 2 different phones
My husband and I are currently syncing photos in our phones into dropbox automatically . Is there a way to create two seperate folders, one for him and one for me because it gets so confusing with b...
No, that's not possible. All devices linked to an account will upload to the same Camera Uploads folder.
You could create two folders and move your photos to your own folder as soon as you're done uploading, leaving the Camera Uploads folder empty until the next upload.
Now it has been 4+ years since the problem has been brought up. This is not a technically challenging feature that requires multiple teams to develop for years. In fact, I believe even an intern should be able to handle. I am seriously considering that this is a business decision made by Dropbox to explicitly not allow users to seperate their photos when using multiple devices.
This should be a very very common situation/usecase for a family when they want to have all pictures saved to cloud while still have some handy seperation. But, no, this is not supported. Instead, they append the ugly "(1)" at the end of the filename when there is a photo filename conflict. How can such solution passed the internal design review with no future action item to reduce the chance of happening?
For me, this decision implies few messages:
"If you want the convenience, pay for multiple account."
"If you hate dealing with these scrambled picture or hate the filename, don't upload and save us the space."
"Customer experience is not the first priority of the company."
Why this is marked as closed, while the issue is still open and NOT resolved
Hi Dropbox,
It would be great if I could use my singular drop box account to synch multiple iphones without them going into the same shared camera folder. That way my wife and I can free up space on icloud and not have to buy another drop box account.
Other than that we love the service.
And this is EXACTLY why they won't do it.
...that way my wife and I ... not have to buy another drop box account.
