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EJHenn
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Organising photos/files by date of creation

I have uploaded hundreds of photos from my iPhone, but Dropbox hasn't kept them in the order they were taken, i.e. the order they were on my phone. Please Dropbox, I need a way to sort by the date of...
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Jay
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2 years ago

Okay, so you manually uploaded the files to the site directly. This will affect the creation date of the files to make the dates appear to be the moment they were uploaded, since the file is technically being created at that point on the site.

 

If you want the original dates to be saved, you'd need to use the automatic camera upload feature on the phone, or the desktop app. 

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    EJHenn
    Explorer | Level 4
    2 years ago

    OK, thanks Jay. I have just downloaded the Dropbox app to my Mac, so I won't have this problem moving forward. Problem is that once I uploaded the vast majority of my photos from my phone (using the manual option), I deleted them from my iCloud 😞  So is there any way Dropbox will be adding a feature at some point so that I can organise by creation date using the data from the images uploaded? 🙏

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