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David E.
Dropboxer
Posts: 118
Hello Beta Testers!

There is a newer forum build than this one. Go get it here:
http://forums.dropbox.com/forum-build.php

Wow. Incredible amount of testing! This new version fixes lots of bugs that you reported so please use this version, and keep plugging in those devices.

During this beta period, we are also offering additional free space to test automatic uploading of photos and videos. For every 500MB of photos and videos automatically uploaded, you'll receive another 500MB space bonus, up to 5GB total.

FAQ on the Photo Upload feature.

Why didn't I get my free space for beta testing the latest forum build?
https://www.dropbox.com/help/287

Where are my last 500M of bonus space?
Sorry, there's a bug in our code. We'll have it fixed within the next several days. There's nothing you need to do. Don't worry, you'll get your bonus.

Can I manage files after they have been uploaded into my Camera Uploads folder?
https://www.dropbox.com/help/288

1.3.13
- Fix crashes when importing raw files
- Better handling of disconnecting a device in Windows.
- Fix case where we could create multiple Camera Uploads folders
- Fix progress windows being too small on Windows
- Add support for importing wmv, m4v, mkv, mts, 3gp in DCIM directory.
- Other small fixes
1.3 (Codename: Phoenix Down) Features
- Importing of photos from cameras, phones, and SD cards.
- Batch upload/download of files.
Notes:
- Clients 1.3.7 and earlier had an auto-update bug. Please install this version so that your client will stay up to date!
- The photo import feature is not available on Mac 10.4 and Linux.
- For Android devices, it's best to use "Connect as Disk Drive". HTC Sync will not work.
- To import from iPhone, make sure to unlock your phone and enter your passcode before importing, otherwise it will claim to find no photos.
- If importing from your iPhone on Mac gives an import error, try hard resetting it--hold down the power and the home button for 5 seconds. This will reboot the phone; it shouldn't change your settings or delete data.
- On Windows, this feature relies on Autoplay. Please enable Autoplay to use this feature if you have disabled it.
- On XP and Vista, it relies on the Windows Image Acquisition Service. If this service is not started, please start the service and reinstall Dropbox to use this feature. On WIndows Server, you may have to install the Desktop Experience feature.
- On Windows 7, newer devices that rely on Device Stage (in the Control Panel) will not show Dropbox as an import option until you select "Change Program" for the default.
- The Galaxy Nexus takes a lot of time to connect on OS X because it likes to pretend that every image on the device is a photograph. We now estimate how long it's going to take and show you that in the progress bar but it's usually in the order of minutes. We're working to see if this can be improved.
As usual, we strongly recommend making a backup of your Dropbox before upgrading to this build as we'll need a few weeks to be certain of its stability. We will rapidly release new builds as necessary to snipe the most common issues as they arise.
Posted 3 months ago #
Kelvin L.
Member
Posts: 4

I recieved only 4.5GB even I hv been uploaded 5.5GB+ photo though Dropbox, y is this happened?

Posted 3 months ago #
G M.
Member
Posts: 2

Reporting in:
Win7 pro
Uploading from Nikon d300-> dropbox crash istant. -->SOLVED WITH 1.3.13
Uploading from external usb hdd-> it works.

I love this function but I hate:
-I cannot choose which folder to sync
-I cannot choose where the files will be uploaded
-The files are renamed. Don't even try to do that again :)

thank you anyway :)

Posted 3 months ago #
mariano jose g.
Pro User
Posts: 24

I don´t like how files are renamed.

Posted 3 months ago #
Everett C.
Member
Posts: 1

How do I do the uploads in Ubuntu?

Posted 3 months ago #
Euler A.
Member
Posts: 2

I managed to fix my Windows XP AutoPlay using Microsoft FixIt 50475: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967715
Perhaps it can be useful for someone else.

Posted 3 months ago #
Argun T.
Member
Posts: 2

Working fine for me. iPhone is a bit iffy, as it sometimes needs reconnecting.

One feature I would like to see, and IMO would make this feature much more useful is an option to automatically load camera imports into subfolders per camera. Let's say I am importing photos from the phone (snapshots) and my camera (assignments or jobs), I would like to not have them mashed up.

One other important feature, and which I think is essential for me at least is to leave the file names unchanged. Renaming the files would stop me from using this feature altogether, as my workflow would involve eventually needing to match the photos managed by my photo software with the online versions - both when using as a back-up or a transport facility when in the field. When the photos are renamed, matching with locally managed copies becomes impossible.

I am sorry if these issues has been brought up before - I just didn't read through 60 pages of forum comments on this feature.

Posted 3 months ago #
Cerise C.
Member
Posts: 2

NOOOOOO!!!! I upgraded to this new version and now Dropbox tells me it can't find any new photos on SD cards, even when there ARE new photos/videos there. The previous build worked beautifully and this is so disappointing...

Posted 3 months ago #
Steve W.
Member
Posts: 1

Works fine on Windows 7 x64 with iphone. Uploaded 1.5g approx. VERY slow upload speed though. Not sure if you have an upload cap....but only getting 55 - 65 kb/s

Posted 3 months ago #
Thomas A.
Member
Posts: 1

Importing from a Cybershot DSC-TX7.mts videos are located in a folder other than DCIM so do I have to move them to the DCIM folder to get imported?

Posted 3 months ago #
Jared C.
Member
Posts: 5

I would like to see an option to manage which cameras are set to auto-import, as I've accidentally set two of them to do so because I hit Return in another program as the dialog popped up with the checkbox already checked.

Posted 3 months ago #
Mark C.
Member
Posts: 1

Still no showing of Dropbox in Autorun on a Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit machine. Multiple uninstall and reinstall, all services running...nothing. Is there something else I should be trying?

Posted 3 months ago #
David E.
Dropboxer
Posts: 118

Hey Jared,
If you disable and enable the feature in preferences you'll get asked again.
David

Posted 3 months ago #
Kelvin L.
Member
Posts: 4

Dropboxer, can you please reply that y I am recieving only 4.5GB, all photo are uploaded by camara upload feature, thx =D

Posted 3 months ago #
Hal F.
Member
Posts: 1

This certainly worked elegantly with Win7 and my Canon camera. No extra space awarded with 50 photos uploaded, but whatever.

What else should we be testing?

Posted 3 months ago #
Jared C.
Member
Posts: 5

Thanks, David!

Posted 3 months ago #
David E.
Dropboxer
Posts: 118

Does it use AVCHD? We're looking into supporting that in a future build.
Thanks,
David

Posted 3 months ago #
James W.
Member
Posts: 3

I am using 1.3.13 under OS X Lion, experimenting with SD Card auto-upload. However I have some bugs to report. Do I report those bugs in this thread or in the following one?:
http://forums.dropbox.com/forum.php?id=2

I will assume for the time being that this thread is sufficient. After I inserted an SD card (with RAW and JPG photos on it, as well as videos), I was presented with the dialog asking me to approve the upload. Wanting to know what would happen, I unticked the checkbox in that dialog before I clicked the upload button. The upload started and my menubar icon changed to a little camera uploading. But it crashed (and the menubar icon vanished) a few seconds later. I launched Dropbox 1.3.13 again and it instantly gave me the same dialog again. This time I left the checkbox ticked and started the upload. This time it finished with no crashing. I also received 500MB of additional space for that upload.

Unfortunately, and the reason I am not inclined to use this feature in the future, the upload speed is too slow. I live in Japan and have a 100Mb/s fiber optic line to my home. It's blazing fast for both upload and download. And yet, despite the fact I have DropBox's prefs setup to not limit my upload speed, the fastest speed I got today was 350KB/s. Currently it is at 228KB/s, and it tells me it has 80 more files to upload, estimating the time at 4 hours. I'm sorry, but for 80 photos (on my Lumix GF-1, 12MP camera), I am highly displeased with that upload speed in light of the fact my fiber optic line is most certainly NOT the limiting factor in upload speed. Until you can offer users upload speeds of a few mega-bits per second (instead of kilobits), this feature will remain merely a nice concept, but not very practical at all.

And assuming the upload speed can be addressed, you still need to allow users to option to choose which files to they want uploaded. I doubt we would want all our files uploaded -- and especially NOT when upload speeds are this painfully slow.

Thank you.

Posted 3 months ago #
Scott M.
Member
Posts: 1

Why does it rename the files with a date?
e.g. 2012-01-27 00.49.18.jpg

I don't like this. I want to keep the original file name.

Posted 3 months ago #
David S.
Pro User
Posts: 1570

It helps to view the files by date. They may have an option to turn renaming off at some point.

Posted 3 months ago #
David B.
Member
Posts: 1

Ok, this happened on .12 version as well as this one. Clean install, no other version of dropbox installed before hand. On installation, odd desktop flicker and windows 7 reloads desktop (all icons near clock missing except network and speaker). On restart, system hangs for a moment with the windows 7 logo just before login, a odd flicker goes through the screen and system restarts.

First time had to restore system to previous settings before Dropbox from restore DVD.

Second time, managed to get the system to start in safe mode and dissabled dropbox autostart using MSCONFIG. System started normal on restart. When starting Dropbox after restart, desktop flickered again and reloaded. Dropbox seems to be running correctly and accepted autoload of picture SD.

On subsequent restarts with autostart, same starting problem. If autostart at system starting of Dropbox is turned off, system seems to start normal.

System setup:
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
6Gb ram
GeForce GT 220 (1gb ram) v295.51 drivers
x2 (that's 2) Dual core Opteron 220s
3 hard drives
x2 Maxtor 200gb
x1 Segate 500gb (in 3 partitions)

Note: Tried uninstall and reinstalled stable version. Does not seem to crash loading 1.2.51 on start up.

Posted 3 months ago #
Steve C.
Member
Posts: 1

Having my Motorola Atrix set to Mass Storage Mode would not allow the photo upload or AutoPlay to work.

I had to change my phone to "Windows Media Sync" and even then I had to use the Motorola software that popped up on my screen upon connection of the phone to select the option to upload Photos to Dropbox. Windows AutoPlay did not detect the phone was connected, nor was I able to leave it in USB storage mode as I read earlier that I should do.

So, it scanned for photos (no mention of video, despite that being supported too) to upload, and it uploaded only one. Knowing there were more, I waited until the upload finished, then disconnected and reconnected the phone and went through the process again to get the upload started.
This time it appeared to be working, but really wasn't doing anything at all. So I tried again.
Then it calculated the time remaining and started the upload. I can tell from a program I use called InfoBar (from SourceForge) that the upload was indeed happening as I could see my upload network speed being maxxed out.

Unfortunately, it has setteled on "10 min left" and the remaining time hasn't changed in the last hour. If I right click on the DropBox icon, it shows 5 hours remaining.

Posted 3 months ago #
Edward Z.
Member
Posts: 1

i connected my disk but nothing popped up
how can i use camera upload?
btw i am using mac osx 10.7.2

Posted 3 months ago #
Lucian M.
Pro User
Posts: 2

I've been uploading all night. In the morning, I wanted to "Pause syncing" and It said "Pausing..." for two hours and when I checked networking charts there was obviously no traffic. It seems like it does not work properly. I had to exit and restart Dropbox.

Posted 3 months ago #
Keith K.
Member
Posts: 2

I put in an SD card full of photos and clicked the Autoplay icon to import with Dropox. I got a message saying "the file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Please install a program or if one is already installed, create an association for it in the default programs control panel." I do have a program associated with JPEG's. It is Window Photo Viewer.

I did the same thing with my iPhone. and got the same message. I installed 1.3.13 and When I plugged my iphone in nothing happened. I went into control panel and change autoplay settings. Then I plugged my iPhone in again and Chose to import with Dropbox. Nothing happened.

Note that the program worked perfectly when I installed on my work computer.

Both my work and home computers are running Windows 7 and are relatively new machines.

Posted 3 months ago #
Jay J.
Member
Posts: 3

Hey,

I don't know if this is just me or not, but I am currently uploading a 900meg video I just took on my ipad2. the estimated time of completion is about 5hrs. Can somebody tell me asap whether it would be far better for me to just put photos on my ipad2 and auto-upload those?? I'm worried that this might not be the best use of this operation...

Also, I took a few new photos as I am uploading the video and dropbox doesn't seem to have detected the new photos on the ipad2 - is this supposed to happen (i.e will it re-scan my ipad after the 900 meg upload?

Thanks,

Jay

Posted 3 months ago #
Rick B.
Member
Posts: 1

Worked great with my Blackberry Bold...option was there as soon as I plugged it in and the speed has been great. Nice job!

Posted 3 months ago #
Jaron M.
Member
Posts: 3

Awesome, the new version recognized the .3gp video files from my cell phone that the previous version skipped.

I don't like that the files are renamed, I'm perfectly capable of selecting sort by date. Also, some files I imported were taken after replacing the camera batteries, so the dates are incorrect anyway. Sorting by the original file name, in that case, is more accurate.

I've received 2GB of extra space so far, the .3pg files should push that above 5GB once my Internet connection manages to finish uploading them. ETA: 18 hours...

Update:
After uploading 2.24GB of pictures and 3.35GB of videos, I have only received 4.5GB of additional space, including the initial 500MB for the first upload. The videos were a combination of .3pg and .avi files, and all of the pictures were .jpg files.

Besides that, everything worked great. Thanks for the extra space!

Win7 x64

Posted 3 months ago #
Andy F.
Member
Posts: 2

Running Windows Vista and Android. The autorun doesn't have the option to "Import Media Files through Dropbox". Anyone else have that problem?

Posted 3 months ago #
Robert G.
Member
Posts: 1

Windows 7 Home Edition 64x
I'm having a difficult time with this build. I must run the installer as administrator otherwise the install will fail.

Auto play is enabled and the dropbox import option appears on the list. However, every time I try to click it, I get the error
"This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Please install a program or, if one is already installed, create an association in the Default Programs control panel."

I HAVE done as the error suggests. The drive in question has nothing but jpg files on it - all of which use the default windows photo viewer.

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