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Uploading images/videos from iPhone resets the name to today's date instead of its creation date
Hello Dear Dropbox-Team,
I find it very useful that Dropbox changes the names of my images and videos to this uniform format "[Foto|Video] DD.MM.YY, HH MM SS.[jpg|png|mp4|...]" when I upload them from my iPhone using the client. For example, my image named "IMG_1234" will be named "Foto 01.01.20, 12 59 55". This helps me a ton to organise my images/videos on a separate drive by sorting by name, since the date is embedded in the filename.
Unfortunately, this does not work for all images. After uploading some of my images, the creation date is reset to today's date, which breaks this organisation system. I have not changed the metadata on these images, but it still happens.
Is there a way to make the naming convention consistent, propably with a fix?
Thank you in advance for answering my question 🙂
- Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Hey Kashiwa14, welcome to our Community.
Are the images/videos that show these two different behaviors uploaded the same way to your Dropbox?
Or are you perhaps using both the Camera Uploads feature and manual uploads, and these two show different behaviors?
Keep me posted.
Hi Hannah,
I only used the upload functionality via the client.
Kind regards
- Walter
It sounds like you're manually uploading your files, but just to be clear, when you say client, you mean the Dropbox mobile app on your iOS device Kashiwa14?
Are you using the camera uploads or the naming conventions feature by any chance?
