Why have new Camera Upload files changed to the format "Photo abc"?

[rgledhill]

At some point over the last few months, Dropbox randomly stopped uploading my photos from my iPhone 13 (iOS17 and now 18).  After lots of poor app behaviour, I eventually managed to re-enable it, having manually been uploading files for quite some time.

As soon as I pointed it back at the right folder, it started uploading... but with the word "Photo" in front of the filename!!

So thanks to this stupidity, I now have hundreds of duplicate photos, called things like "2024-09-18 19.38.54.jpg" and "Photo 18-09-24, 19 38 54.jpg".

So not only has it completely renamed it, it's ruined all possibilities to sort by title.

As a final slap in the face, it's processed the images to half their size and reduced the quality!

So, Dropbox... how do I disable this ridiculous "feature" that some imbecile decided would be good to suddenly implement?

[Rich]

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@rgledhill wrote:

Actually it looks like both systems are renaming it ... If I go into my photo album on my phone, open a photo and tap on the i button, it says IMG_0513...

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That would be the typical behavior. The naming convention for manual uploads differs from automatic uploads. Neither format has changed recently.

[rgledhill]

Hmm, so what you're saying is that the two methods have always given different results? That's pretty rubbish.  Why on earth would someone implement that?

I guess it's because I've repeatedly had to manually tell the Dropbox app to trigger Camera Uploads, and only recently had to try the manual route.  Really annoying.