Hello How do I move photos from my camera upload folder to another folder?
@suemc wrote:... it only works if the images are already in the "files" section. These photos I want to move to folders are from a camera upload and are in the photos section.
The Photos section isn't a separate area where photos are stored. Photos just shows you ALL of the photos that are in your account, from all folders. You can't move things out of Photos because it's just a way to view all of the photos in your account. Instead, you need to find the photos in the Files section and move them to the folders that you want them in. Any photos that are automatically uploaded to your account would usually be found in the Camera Uploads folder. It's from this folder (or others) that you would move them.
This is the same as using the Photos page on the Dropbox website, though the website also includes an option to "show in folder" so you can easily move from a photo on the Photos page to the folder that it resides in.
Open your dropbox folder (on your computer), select files, cut 'em, move to other folder and past 'em.
Hi sorry I am trying to do the same thing as Steve W, do you mean to move to another folder i have to cut and paste them?
Drag - n-dropt should do it.
Hi! Is this only possible to do on the desktop version? I have been searching for a way to move my recently uploaded photos to specific folders but I'm not able to do so in the web version.
None of this seems to work. I want to move some photos to a shared file folder and can't figure it out. Drag and drop doesn't work. Neither does copy and paste. Please advise.
In a PC where you have your Dropbox and the photos you want to move:
You can use drag and drop as well.
When the photos are moved from one Dropbox folder to another Dropbox folder, Dropbox will sync only the location. This will take just few seconds (perhaps a couple of minutes) so Dropbox will be able to update index.
If you move photos (or files) from a Non Dropbox folder to Dropbox, files needs to be uploaded to the cloud. Upload time depends on the amount of photos you want to upload, the size of the photos, your Internet connection speed, your settings (upload speed limit) and other hardware factors.
Having your photos on Dropbox is a great way to share it between your devices or share it with family and friends.
From time to time, backup your Dropbox content and important data to DVD, USB, NAS or HDD for data protection.
Thanks for the speedy reply, but I guess that only works for PC, certainly not for Mac, sad to say.
Will work for Mac too, but the dropbox client must be running. Using web page www.dropbox.com/home you can click on space beside filename and a "move" appears at the top (c.f. 'more').
Thank you! That works, but this is a remarkably difficult process. Just to get this far took a lot of time and now I am faced with two very daunting issues: 1) choosing each shot is near impossible as the image is so small in this way; and 2) once I move them to another file they disappear from this one. There needs to be an elegant way to place a number of photos in one file into another. My needs are simple: I have a lot of uploaded photos and would like to share a portion of them with specific friends in another file that they can add photos to as well. I can't be the only person who thought of this.
I agree, there must be a more simple way to make moving photos into a folder happen. I don't use my laptop for uploading or storing photos. My photos automatically upload from the dropbox app on my phone and so when I go on the web browser to sort them (or even in the app) there is no simple way to click on them and move them to a folder.
It seems the only thing the web browser version will let you do is move them into an album.
I am also trying to do all these things but with an iPad.
How do I drag photos that I uploaded in Dropbox into a folder I created in my iPad Dropbox app?
I dont believe you can drag / drop on iPads Faye. You need to use the menu options.
I have jpg files that are actually receipt copies, etc that I do not want in my photos file. They should be in a regular folder. I can't seem to move them from the photos folder. I don't even know how they got into the photos folder.
The Photos page isn't a folder. It's a display of all the image files in your account (from all folders). If you don't want a particular folder to be included in the Photos display, while viewing the timeline, find an image from one of those folders, right-click on it and select Exclude from Timeline... The entire folder will be excluded.
How do you select ALL files to move them into a folder. When using the web browser can't see any way to select all photos or files, just individual ones.
Joe, goto www.dropbox.com/home
hold down the control key to select multiple items for a group action...
This is not making much sense to me either. I can move photos into an album, but that's not what I want to do. How can I select multiple photos and move them into a shared folder?
Ok, I figured it out, but wow. That's an eye exercise. You pretty much have to know which photos are which based on a tiny thumbnail. Would have like to be able to do this directly from the main photos selection rather than viewing them in their actual folder.
Why is Dropbox so difficult to use? Sure doesn't seem very user friendly. I can not figure out how to even email a few particular pictures to someone. Seems that I have to use the thumbnails to choose from and they are so small. Then can't get them to email. Haven't had much luck even trying to get them in some seperate folders. How does a person get help??
Vivian, DB does not use the same 'model' as your operating system uses. For examples, the 'timeline' and 'albums' are Not folders but Views. Using the web site is a convenience, not the way you normally use your files.
This does not make sense, what's the purpose of having photo taken from device and sync and show in photo and timeline in Dropbox in the cloud and you can't simply drag and drop and move it into files or folder.
And when I tried to sync the Dropbox in Windows to my Dropbox account in the cloud, ended up it is taking up disk space on my laptop. I thought the purpose of this is to act as a backup for my laptop in case when it fail.
I have to agree with Vvian and others ... why in heavens name has Dropbox become so user-unfriendly! Moving a file in the web app from one folder to another used to be a piece of cake before they introduced this "Photo timeline "model. Everything to do with photos has now become a pain ... or sometimes simply impossible! I joined Dropbox right at the outset precisely because it was so easy to do things online ... but perhaps it is time to move on ...
I am also trying to move photos from camera upload onto various folders. I am using a surfacepro tablet, no mouse. there is no option in the dropbox icons when I select photos to cut or paste. can you or anyone else advise ? why is this so hard!!
