That’s going to be beyond what most business owners are willing to do.īut, there’s an easier way. That involved viewing the source and finding it in the code. So when I wanted to share one of those photos to Facebook or post it to our website, I’d have to dig it out of the web version of our Instagram feed.
It was usually the first place we’d post amazing food photos.īut we were posting to Instagram from three different devices. On line 2, make sure to change the timezone to yours.When we still had the bakery open, we were very active on Instagram.
I simply added the following script to Hazel, and now all my photos uploaded with CameraSync are renamed with the correct timestamps. The developer of CameraSync was kind enough to provide a PHP script you can run to re-set the Exif data correctly. And that was happening even though Finder could see the correct Exif data. This explains why, after using CameraSync, I ended up with files renamed (per my Hazel actions) with timestamps showing the upload date, rather than the actual modification date. As it turns out, however, after I noticed an issue with timestamps, the developer of the app told me the Dropbox API isn’t letting third-party developers set timestamps for uploaded files properly. Last, CameraSync preserves all Exif data associated with a photo, which comes in handy for my workflow. It’s a trade-off I can accept, knowing that CameraSync uploaded my photos every time I arrived at home. Unfortunately, due to iOS’ limitations, CameraSync can’t “upload new files, then delete them” – so you’ll still have to do the last part of the process manually. You can choose a specific “album” to monitor for new photos (such as a Photo Stream instead of the Camera Roll), and, obviously, the app is capable of only uploading new photos since the last upload session. For instance, it comes with a “Content to sync” filter that allows you to automatically avoid uploading screenshots from the Camera Roll (they are saved as. First world problem: solved.ĬameraSync has got more clever features up its sleeves, though. In this way, I can take as many photos as I want, go home, and let CameraSync do its job without having to “worry” about anything. CameraSync will inform you of what it’s doing through local notifications, and it’s even got an option to only trigger background location sync if a WiFi network is found (so you won’t consume 3G or 4G data). In the settings, you can add “locations” the app will monitor as soon as you arrive at, say, your house or office, the app will start uploading photos without you having to manually launch anything. First introduced by and made popular by Marco Arment in Instapaper, background location sync is a feature that simply makes sense for this kind of app. The big advantage of CameraSync over the official Dropbox app is that it supports geofencing. As you can imagine, I’m using it to upload photos to the Dropbox folder I’ve already set up with my Hazel workflow. CameraSync can upload photos and videos to a specific folder on Dropbox, but it also supports SkyDrive, FTP, Amazon S3, Flickr, and Box.net.
I’m now using CameraSync to upload photos to Dropbox automatically.ĬameraSync’s interface design isn’t the prettiest one around, but the app is extremely useful and well-done (plus, the icon is sweet).
Thanks to a third-party app, I’ve managed to (partially) automate the process of uploading photos from my iPhone (and iPad) as soon as I get home. The photos will be uploaded to the Camera Uploads folder, and sorted using the same Hazel workflow described above. The official Dropbox app recently gained the capability of automatically uploading photos to the Camera Uploads folder: this means every time I go out and take some photos, I can come back home, open the Dropbox app, let it do its magic, then delete the photos from my iPhone. Towards the end of the article, I mentioned how I was handling uploads from my iPhone: Two weeks ago I wrote about my new Dropbox-based workflow for photos.
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