Anyone using Dropbox? Anyone want to upgrade from their 2GB cap to a 5GB cap while using the newest additions?
All details can be found here.
Checking it out now, I was about to install Dropbox on all the computers at my job for the extra space.
Sugarsync has been nothing but frustration lately. Thanks a bunch!
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Never mind need to upload photo/videos to get the space, just uploaded all those roms for nothing. Lol
It seems that if you upload quite a bit of data, then delete it, the new storage cap remains. So Im trying to upload as much as I can to get Dropbox to match it, then remove whatever I dont need and still keep the space.
Some people are reporting the storage isn't getting added yet but the limit is gone.
I myself haven't got anything either and I followed the steps, guess its too much at once for them to handle.
I've just uploaded 2 avi files via the desktop client, I am now at 112% space?????
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http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=53013
They said desktop app and Android app do double duty on that limit.
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Seeing as how I got an extra 48GB (totaling 51.62GB) by logging into dropbox on an ICS device, don't really need the extra 5gb, but will do so to remove the file size limit .
fone_fanatic said:
Seeing as how I got an extra 48GB (totaling 51.62GB) by logging into dropbox on an ICS device, don't really need the extra 5gb, but will do so to remove the file size limit .
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51gb!
So...Referral, .Edu, Beta, ICS, what else is there?
Read the thread, folks. It says only automatic photo and video uploads count. So sitting there uploading and deleting roms isn't doing you any good.
How can I see if the upload size limit has been removed?
Why wouldn't they put the "Camera Uploads" folder under the "Photos" folder? You can't do gallery view unless they're in the Photos folder...
Oh well, I prefer using Picasa on my computer to rename and organize my pics before I upload them anywhere.
LiLChris06 said:
51gb!
So...Referral, .Edu, Beta, ICS, what else is there?
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51.72 now But the extra 48GB is only for a year.
fone_fanatic said:
How can I see if the upload size limit has been removed?
Why wouldn't they put the "Camera Uploads" folder under the "Photos" folder? You can't do gallery view unless they're in the Photos folder...
Oh well, I prefer using Picasa on my computer to rename and organize my pics before I upload them anywhere.
51.72 now But the extra 48GB is only for a year.
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Oh ok, I need to grab myself an edu email to get that double referral MB.
That 48gb would be awesome if it was permanent.
I just copied over 5GB of pictures. It says its going to take 32 hours to upload :-/
It has already told me that its upgraded my Dropbox account to 2.5GB.
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Why wouldn't they put the "Camera Uploads" folder under the "Photos" folder? You can't do gallery view unless they're in the Photos folder...
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The 'Photos' (and 'Public') folders are less private than anything outside these folders. Source
From this another Dropbox help page, it says that "The Photos folder automatically creates online galleries. Any image files you move or copy to your Photos folder are automatically included in an online gallery anyone can view from the Dropbox website.". It means that you don't have to create a public view link, it's automatically created. So anyone who gets your leaked photo gallery link can enjoy them and you can't control that.
For folders outside Public and Photos, everything is private and you can selectively makes things public/private at your discretion.
I think it's good that they are not mixing up the privacy settings of Photos and Camera Uploads.
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I just copied over 5GB of pictures. It says its going to take 32 hours to upload :-/
It has already told me that its upgraded my Dropbox account to 2.5GB.
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I'm sitting in my desk recording videos then uploading it since I don't have 5gb of pictures/videos.
So glad my work has some nice upload speeds, taking advantage of it as much as I can.
jazzboyrules said:
The 'Photos' (and 'Public') folders are less private than anything outside these folders. Source
From this another Dropbox help page, it says that "The Photos folder automatically creates online galleries. Any image files you move or copy to your Photos folder are automatically included in an online gallery anyone can view from the Dropbox website.". It means that you don't have to create a public view link, it's automatically created. So anyone who gets your leaked photo gallery link can enjoy them and you can't control that.
For folders outside Public and Photos, everything is private and you can selectively makes things public/private at your discretion.
I think it's good that they are not mixing up the privacy settings of Photos and Camera Uploads.
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Cool, thanks for that explanation!
Thanks red for finding this. I found this trick to upload a huge amount of files. In the camera turn the video recording to 1080p. Then press the record button and leave your phone upside down for some time. After 10 minutes the video took up 1 gb.
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You can also double your referrals (500 MB each!) with an edu email. And yes, it's retroactive
Anyone else getting a force close if you go into the app, hit "Uploads" at the top, then click "Photos or videos" at the bottom? It still uploads stuff fine so I can get the extra space. I had this FC on stock 2.3.4 and I'm getting it on SHOstock now as well.
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Thanks red for finding this. I found this trick to upload a huge amount of files. In the camera turn the video recording to 1080p. Then press the record button and leave your phone upside down for some time. After 10 minutes the video took up 1 gb.
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Did the same thing here
Few videos and I was done. They are still uploading due to slow connection but It took me few minutes to set this system
http://samsunggalaxys3review.net/tutorial-how-to-get-free-dropbox-space-up-to-5gb/
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Hey guys!
As i'm sure most of you are aware you can get a 50GB free box account with your touchpad. But you can easily create MULTIPLE accounts by simply logging out in the app and creating a new account. Then you have 100GB free over 2 accounts!
You can add both or more box accounts to your touchpad accounts anyway
Just thought I'd share
Is there any kind of desktop sync software, like what Dropbox gives you? If not, maybe I'll just use Box as long-term storage for things I'm not using regularly. Clever idea about the multiple accounts by the way
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Loggerhead87 said:
Is there any kind of desktop sync software, like what Dropbox gives you? If not, maybe I'll just use Box as long-term storage for things I'm not using regularly. Clever idea about the multiple accounts by the way
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Box.net don't provide one without changing your subscription to a paid one. But software such as Gladinet will allow you to mount it as a drive in windows. You can also add multiple accounts too
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Is there any kind of desktop sync software, like what Dropbox gives you? If not, maybe I'll just use Box as long-term storage for things I'm not using regularly. Clever idea about the multiple accounts by the way
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If you are running Windows, you can use WebFolders. It doesn't give you sync, but you can drag & drop files in and out of box.net with explorer. Just google 'box.net webfolders'.
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If you are running Windows, you can use WebFolders. It doesn't give you sync, but you can drag & drop files in and out of box.net with explorer. Just google 'box.net webfolders'.
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I tried that, but couldn't get it to work. It connected but wouldn't allow me to upload anything!
Still Gladinet works perfectly and is free
It says with the free edition of Gladinet that you only get 1000 file transfers per task...Any idea what this means??
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It says with the free edition of Gladinet that you only get 1000 file transfers per task...Any idea what this means??
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From what I gather it means you can't say paste more than 1000 things at once. I have uploaded 30GB of photos in a batch without any problems
I uploaded about 2GB of photos to box.net thinking that I can look at them on the TP. However, when I go to look at them on the TP's box.net, it is so slow to the point where I can't scroll the pictures filename list. And there is no preview or miniturized picture icon so you know what you are looking at (like on a PC). To see the picture you have to click each filename and wait for the whole file to download. The process is painfully slow. Guess it's only good for "parking" your files.
Also there is a filesize limit of 25MG unless you pay. This makes it all a bit of a waste of time for me, even Microsoft Skydrive is better (although has no app).
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Also there is a filesize limit of 25GB unless you pay. This makes it all a bit of a waste of time for me, even Microsoft Skydrive is better (although has no app).
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Did you mean 25MB? If it was 25GB that would be awesome lol. But if you did mean 25MB, then you are wrong, on 50GB accounts, the filesize limit is 1GB per file, trust me I've already tested this and it works
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Did you mean 25MB? If it was 25GB that would be awesome lol. But if you did mean 25MB, then you are wrong, on 50GB accounts, the filesize limit is 1GB per file, trust me I've already tested this and it works
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<blush> yes I meant 25MB. I created a box.net account on my PC before my touchpad arrived then logged into it on my Touchpad & assumed that this would upgrade my account. Then I tried to upload a couple of video files from my PC but got an error message about the 25MB size limit. My account settings show a 50GB capacity. Where am I going wrong?
PS their website states:
The free personal account has a file size limit of 25 megabytes. Please note that you can fill your 5 gigabytes of space with as many files as will fit, but no one file may exceed 25 megabytes. To remove this restriction, you may upgrade to a paid account which will allow you to upload files as large as one gigabyte.
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<blush> yes I meant 25MB. I created a box.net account on my PC before my touchpad arrived then logged into it on my Touchpad & assumed that this would upgrade my account. Then I tried to upload a couple of video files from my PC but got an error message about the 25MB size limit. My account settings show a 50GB capacity. Where am I going wrong?
PS their website states:
The free personal account has a file size limit of 25 megabytes. Please note that you can fill your 5 gigabytes of space with as many files as will fit, but no one file may exceed 25 megabytes. To remove this restriction, you may upgrade to a paid account which will allow you to upload files as large as one gigabyte.
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That is really odd, I've successfully uploaded files that are nearly 100MB in size with no problems, I haven't had the patience to do any movies etc yet. I would try creating a brand new account on your touchpad and see if that still has problems. Maybe there is an issue converting your current account.
I'll ss when I get to work, but my max filesize was 1gb.
Nope, I created a new account directly from the TP after uninstalling & reinstalling the app, still get the same error message.
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Nope, I created a new account directly from the TP after uninstalling & reinstalling the app, still get the same error message.
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I'm doing a test with a much bigger file right now, and so far it is working successfully and has already surpassed 25mb.
Can you confirm that you have created the new account from the BOX.NET application which was downloaded from the HP App Store?
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I'm doing a test with a much bigger file right now, and so far it is working successfully and has already surpassed 25mb.
Can you confirm that you have created the new account from the BOX.NET application which was downloaded from the HP App Store?
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Yes, I didn't do anything via a browser except try to upload a file.
is there really no way to listen to music i uploaded to box.net without having to download each file......even using the browser doesnt work, this sux
edit...found out how to do it...share your folder, logout, then hit the url to your folder then you can play files through the browser....for some reason if u login it wont let you play in browser
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I'm doing a test with a much bigger file right now, and so far it is working successfully and has already surpassed 25mb.
Can you confirm that you have created the new account from the BOX.NET application which was downloaded from the HP App Store?
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(account created via box.net app from hp app store)
able to upload 80MB files
not able to upload 500MB files
dont feel like testing inbetween
Hey All,
Just wanted to update this thread to say that a few people on PreCentral had a very similar problem to the OP, and it seems that BOX.NET has changed it's terms for newer registered users.
It seems that if you register now, you get put on a 'LITE 5GB' account, this means that while you still have your 50GB, you can only upload up to 100MB per file.
Those that have the 1GB files size limit should have accounts called 'Personal +50GB'
You can check this by logging into BOX.NET, then going into My Account, then Settings, and scrolling all the way to the bottom of the screen. Would be curious to know what it says for you guys. Hope this helps!
Account type: Lite (5GB)
Max file size: 100 MB
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i also noticed you can't directly link you image unless you upgrade
So just a heads up for everyone that uses dropbox or wants to start using dropbox, they are offering you up to 5 free gigs for using their new automatic camera upload feature on their beta software. The link for the desktop version of dropbox: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=53104&replies=718
I believe they just came out with an android app as well where you can also get 5 free gigs (combined total though not 5 from desktop and 5 from android)
All you have to do is have some sort of external hard drive or sd card and have some .jpg files on there. You get 500 free megs for every 500 you upload for a max of 5 gigs.
Some tips:
1) If you already have a dropbox account with pictures of any file on there, you can just copy them from your dropbox folder to the sd card (CHANGE ANY NON-JPG EXTENSIONS TO JPG). That way when dropbox goes to find pictures and starts uploading, you will actually be syncing the files and not uploading (since those files are already in your account/cloud). You'll still get the 5 gigs as long as you let dropbox automatically upload pictures. You can delete the files afterwards.
2) Download this fake image zip (https://s3.amazonaws.com/picturesharing/fakeimages.tar.bz2) It's basically 17k zip file worth of jpg files but bloated so it actually reads 5 gigs. Now you can unzip the .tar.bz2 and unzip it again until you get a folder with jpgs (so unzip twice since it's a zip within a zip). Put these fake images onto your SD card, unmount the SD card, and load the SD card again (or USB drive). Dropbox will search for images when you plug in the sd card and will sync the jpgs.
From my own experience, just let the jpgs sync to your Camera Upload folder and you'll get the bonus space. You're not actually uploading 5gigs worth of jpgs because it's actually 17kb so don't you worry if you have slow upload speeds (like me).
3) If for some reason dropbox doesn't find the jpgs, try making a folder called DCIM and putting the jpgs in that folder.
If you don't have dropbox, it's a great way to save files and share on the cloud! You can sign up at dropbox.com or you can get another 250mb of free space by signing up as my referral, which I would love! my referral link is: http://db.tt/a4mt2G6
Enjoy!
I downloaded & installed v1.3.13 but cannot see any way to sync any portable devices - am I missing something?
EDIT - Doh! I just read the instructions about removing then reinserting the USB stick!
EDIT again - just reinserted my USB stick & nothing seems to be happening?
Don't forget, TouchPad owners get a free 50GB account from Box.com (used to be .net) - you just have to sign up from withing webOS.
2GB and even 5GB just sounds so dinky.
Worked like a charm!!!! Thanks.
dwl99 after you insert your usb stick (if you have disabled the autoplay feature) you have to right click on it and choose import photos using dropbox and it should work great.
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Worked like a charm!!!! Thanks.
dwl99 after you insert your usb stick (if you have disabled the autoplay feature) you have to right click on it and choose import photos using dropbox and it should work great.
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I don't see that option - can you post the url you used to download the Beta from & what version it is? Thanks
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Don't forget, TouchPad owners get a free 50GB account from Box.com (used to be .net) - you just have to sign up from withing webOS.
2GB and even 5GB just sounds so dinky.
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That is true. The Box.com deal is better but it is also good to have a Dropbox account with storage space if you use Titanium Backup.
Follow the link provided in the first post and download the windows client. I used this dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/Dropbox%201.3.13.exe
Box may have larger space, but you only have a 100mb file size limit. Dropbox the only limit you have is your total space.
btw, i signed up under your link!
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Box may have larger space, but you only have a 100mb file size limit. Dropbox the only limit you have is your total space.
btw, i signed up under your link!
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thank you! yeah I have a box.net but it sucks to have that 100mb limit and I like how dropbox has the desktop client so if I wanted to upload anything I can just put it into my dropbox folder and it'll automatically upload by itself
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I downloaded & installed v1.3.13 but cannot see any way to sync any portable devices - am I missing something?
EDIT - Doh! I just read the instructions about removing then reinserting the USB stick!
EDIT again - just reinserted my USB stick & nothing seems to be happening?
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do you have windows or mac? I have a mac so I might not be able to help you if you have a windows, but I think you can just right click the usb stick and click on import photos through dropbox. If that doesn't work, is it possible to turn on autoplay?
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do you have windows or mac? I have a mac so I might not be able to help you if you have a windows, but I think you can just right click the usb stick and click on import photos through dropbox. If that doesn't work, is it possible to turn on autoplay?
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Thanks for the reply. I'm on Windoze. Currently copying the fake jpg's to a microSD card in case it doesn't like my USB stick. Watch this space......
Dropbox or.... Sugar Sync!
Hi thanks for that, the normal (free) dropbox size could always do with being bigger! I was amazed when I found out and signed up for box.net's free 50gb but found it to be garbage. The 25mb file limit (well sound's like it's now 100mb from your posts) was prohibitive for files that would actually make use of 50gb and the lack of desktop sync (unless you are a business customer) also combined to make it pointless of me.
Genuinely not trying to sound too salesman-like but.. I recently started using sugar sync. It's 5gb free vs 2gb with dropbox. And it has no file size limit (like box.net). And it has desktop sync (like dropbox). And you can sync *any* folders on your computer with a right click context menu (better than dropbox where they all have to be in dropbox folder). And any pics or music you sync can then be streamed to any mobile android/ios etc device via their app (cos often that right click is easier than connecting & uploading). It's more spacious, easy and powerful in my experience so far. And you can select your dropbox folder as one to sync giving you double cloud backup protection and easing the transition if you want to switch!
I still use dropbox cos that's what I'm used to but I'm thinking of dropping it soon. If you're interested in giving it a try, PM me your email and I'll send you an invite which will give us both an extra 0.5gb on top of the 5gb you normally get. (And another advantage - there's no limit to how much space you can get via recommendations! unlike dropbox...). Yes I am shamelessly trying to increase my sugar sync storage but I do genuinely find it better and so might you and you'll get another 0.5gb too.
i dont think it increased it to the max.... cause now i only have 6.75 amount of space not 7.25
I'm at 11.7gb from referrals, using the jpg zip i can still get another 5?
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I'm at 11.7gb from referrals, using the jpg zip i can still get another 5?
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yeah if you haven't done their new camera upload thing
edit: im an idiot
Thanks for the fake pics. This worked perfectly!
This is weird. I have installed Dropbox 1.3.13 o2 2 different Win7 64-bit and 1 WinXP computers. I have tried the fake jpg's on a USB stick and a microSD card and also tried putting the jpg's inside a DCIM folder but Dropbox still looks exactly the same as before. When I right-click the Dropbox taskbar icon there is no option to sync the DCIM folder. If I right-click the DCIM folder or the USB/SD card there is also no option to do anything with Dropbox. Surely I'm missing something really obvious???
EDIT - I just enabled Autoplay on the SD card on the WinXP machine & it now gives an option to sync when the card is reinserted.
EDIT again - just got it working on the Win7 PC - I needed to enable Autoplay for pictures, reinsert the USB stick, right click on the drive and then select Autoplay & then Dropbox sync.
Thanks for the tip.I recently signed up for Dropbox and is pretty awesome compared to others like box.com which offers 50GB of free is you use certain device.And what a horrible experience it was....what is the point of having all that space if the features are so limited so Dropbox has loyal customer.Thanks to the OP for the tip and to Dropbox.
Thanks for this. I also got capped at 6.75 even though i had a couple referrals. Still more than I had.
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I have about 1 gig of Pictures on my Prime Camera I want to upload to DropBox. I am in the Camera App, is there a way to upload Multiple Pictures from Camera to DropBox? I can only see how to do 1 picture at a time. The reason I asked was this article I found about getting up to 3 gig of Extra DropBox space for Free.
http://techpp.com/2012/03/15/camera-upload-free-dropbox-space/
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I have about 1 gig of Pictures on my Prime Camera I want to upload to DropBox. I am in the Camera App, is there a way to upload Multiple Pictures from Camera to DropBox? I can only see how to do 1 picture at a time. The reason I asked was this article I found about getting up to 3 gig of Extra DropBox space for Free.
http://techpp.com/2012/03/15/camera-upload-free-dropbox-space/
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There's a setting in dropbox somewhere that allows all pics to be uploaded.
You can send albums just select it and use the dropbox share .Or if in an album select all pictures then unselect ones you don't want and send .
If you didn't notice the bar at top once you select 1 item that's actually a drop down menu that has "select all".
Just tested with both an album and multi files works no problem.
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I have about 1 gig of Pictures on my Prime Camera I want to upload to DropBox. I am in the Camera App, is there a way to upload Multiple Pictures from Camera to DropBox? I can only see how to do 1 picture at a time. The reason I asked was this article I found about getting up to 3 gig of Extra DropBox space for Free.
http://techpp.com/2012/03/15/camera-upload-free-dropbox-space/
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Just download the beta apk and once it's setup it will automatically upload any pics in your dcim folder, it did on mine. It should also give you free space up to 5gb more. After that it automatically uploads the pictures as you take them, very nice.
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You can send albums just select it and use the dropbox share .Or if in an album select all pictures then unselect ones you don't want and send .
If you didn't notice the bar at top once you select 1 item that's actually a drop down menu that has "select all".
Just tested with both an album and multi files works no problem.
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Can this Folder upload be done though the Camera App? Also when I did check DropBox it was uploading all my Pictures in my Camera automatically but would like to do by Folders.
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You can't so it from within Camera app. You can organise your folders with Es file explorer or another before syncing.
The Dropbox Android app now has an Automatic Camera upload feature, it will up your entire camera and video roll to "Camera Uploads" folder automatically. Using this feature will earn you 3GB of free Dropbox space too! They will match every 500mb of photos/video you auto upload up to 3GB (5GB for beta testers). You can configure it in the Dropbox app settings.
I posted this on App Forum also but I thought I might get more views here. I have about 1 gig of Pictures on my Prime Camera I want to upload to DropBox. I am in the Camera App, is there a way to upload Multiple Pictures from Camera to DropBox? I can only see how to do 1 picture at a time. The reason I asked was this article I found about getting up to 3 gig of Extra DropBox space for Free.
http://techpp.com/2012/03/15/camera-...dropbox-space/
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I know that when you inistially set-up the dropbox app and turn on the camera uploads, it will upload all the photos on the tablet. Not sure about multiple pics after that. You may wanna clear data on the dropbox app and restart it to trigger the initial set-up again.
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I know that when you inistially set-up the dropbox app and turn on the camera uploads, it will upload all the photos on the tablet. Not sure about multiple pics after that. You may wanna clear data on the dropbox app and restart it to trigger the initial set-up again.
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Thanks. I just checked DropBox and it seems it is indeed doing Multiple uploads of my Pictures.
Got odd question relating to DropBox and Camera App. My 1st initial upload of 1.5 gigs of Picture from Camera App to DropBox did indeed upload all my Pictures Automatically when I 1st turned on the Upload to Drop Box Option in the Camera. I now have another 1.4 gigs in Camera File and the Upload to Dropbox setting it on but I can only do 1 Pictures at a time it not doing them all Automatically like it did the 1st time. Any ideas how to get them all uploading without me doing 1 picture at a time?
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Got odd question relating to DropBox and Camera App. My 1st initial upload of 1.5 gigs of Picture from Camera App to DropBox did indeed upload all my Pictures Automatically when I 1st turned on the Upload to Drop Box Option in the Camera. I now have another 1.4 gigs in Camera File and the Upload to Dropbox setting it on but I can only do 1 Pictures at a time it not doing them all Automatically like it did the 1st time. Any ideas how to get them all uploading without me doing 1 picture at a time?
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If you want to share certain photos that you have already taken you can do that easily from the Gallery App.
If you want to share the whole folder, long-hold on it. If you want to share certain photos, enter the folder that contains them, hit the "Menu" icon (top right) choose "Select Item" and just tap the pictures you want to share.
Once you have your images selected, click the "Share" icon (sideways V with dots at the corners) and then select Dropbox from the list. There is a chance that the Dropbox icon might be next to the Share icon if that was the last service you shared to.
Select the Dropbox folder that you want to send files to and then click the "Upload" button and all your files will be uploaded.
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If you want to share certain photos that you have already taken you can do that easily from the Gallery App.
If you want to share the whole folder, long-hold on it. If you want to share certain photos, enter the folder that contains them, hit the "Menu" icon (top right) choose "Select Item" and just tap the pictures you want to share.
Once you have your images selected, click the "Share" icon (sideways V with dots at the corners) and then select Dropbox from the list. There is a chance that the Dropbox icon might be next to the Share icon if that was the last service you shared to.
Select the Dropbox folder that you want to send files to and then click the "Upload" button and all your files will be uploaded.
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Thanks for the reply. I am trying to get Free DropBox space and from my understanding the deal is you have to use the Camera App itself to upload to Dropbox to get 500 megs free space for each 500 meg upload up to 3 gigs. I don't have Folders in the Camera so all my Pictures are Singles and I have 723 of them. Like I said the 1st 740 pictures I did this way when I first clicked the "upload to DropBox" though Camera App the App/Dropbox did all the single files uploads automatically and you could even see it doing it Picture by Picture. I can't seem to get this to happen again with this next set of Pictures.
Hello!
I know Dropbox for Android (and iOS for that matter) will automatically upload pictures you take with the camera. But I want to have it also upload pictures that I save, either from a text message or from a website. Those pictures are saved to the "Downloads" folder, which I don't think Dropbox is watching for pictures. If I move pictures to the "DCIM/Camera" folder, SOMETIMES pictures will upload, but not always.
So is there a way to force Dropbox to auto-upload the pictures I save? I want that to happen so the pictures will be renamed to the date it was taken, which is why simply sharing them to Dropbox won't do.
Thanks!
Bump..also looking for an answer
Don't think so hmm. Maybe try to force a media rescan via one of those apps on the play store?
Alternatively use an app like Dropsync to do one way uploads or 2 way syncing to any folder to Dropbox.
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Dropbox does watch the Downloads folder. Actually, it monitors every folder on the USB storage partition of your phone. For example, screenshots I take on my phone get uploaded to my Dropbox as part of the "camera upload" function of the official Dropbox app, even though I don't get those pictures by using the phone's camera nor are they stored in the DCIM folder.
To see this, take a screenshot of any screen on your phone (for my wife's HTC Vivid it's Power + Volume Up, for my SGS2 Skyrocket it's Power + Home). It'll get saved to /storage/Pictures/Screenshots (your exact path name may be different depending on how your phone designates the USB storage partition of your phone - note this is note the SD card, but the accessible storage on your phone when you mount it as a USB drive when plugging it into your computer). You should eventually see that those screenshots are uploaded to the same folder on your Dropbox as all the photos you take with your phone's camera.
If you're not seeing that, I'm not sure what the issue would be. I'd recommend going to system settings > applications > dropbox > force stop > clear cache > clear data > uninstall, then reinstall Dropbox and set up camera upload again, take a few photos with the camera to make sure it works, then retaking some screenshots to make sure that that works as well.
by default, it upload to "Camera Uploads" dropbox, can I change the default folder to other folder in dropbox? sub folder?
Thanks
henry8668 said:
by default, it upload to "Camera Uploads" dropbox, can I change the default folder to other folder in dropbox? sub folder?
Thanks
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No feasible solution
I don't think dropbox watch ALL folders. I noticed pictures for Whatsapp / eye-fi / any other apps which stores pictures in their own folder do not get backed up. Please advise if anyone have solution as to enable users as to which folders they want to upload to dropbox from their Android.
I use these two apps to sync additional folders on my phone to Dropbox's Camera Uploads. It may not be the exact solution you're looking for, but it works for me.
DropSync & CloudPipes
Try pasting photos in camera folder and rename similar to photo taken with camera. That may work
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Hi,
I am very interested in these feauture. There is some solution to automatically upload pictures for other location in dropbox?
Many thanks