Force upload of movies and videos already present on the phone

effemmeffe commented 8 years ago

Actual behaviour

The client doesn't upload old pictures and videos present on the phone.

Expected behaviour

It should be some way to trigger the upload of the photos and videos already present on the phone before installation of the client.

Steps to reproduce

shoot some picture on the phone
shoot some videos on the phone
download the oC Android client
Environment data

Android version: 6.0

Device model: MotoG 3rd gen

Stock or customized system: stock

ownCloud app version: 2.0.1

ownCloud server version: ownCloud 9.0.4 (stable)

EDIT 2021:

Add an option when enabling camera uploads to decide whether sync is done from scratch or from now on. Sync also old stuff?. (question: would it be posible to persist which device locations were synced somewhen? in order to do it only once)
To take in account if the option is checked
- Performance (check with huge amount of files > 1000 ). System will decide priorities to queue, not in our hands. User should be warned about the use of bandwidth and/or storage.
- Quota. Check first if the quota is enough. Worker can do it. In case quota exceeds the remaining storage, user is warned that available storage is not enough. User will have to decide:
  - Ignore the warning and go on: files will start to upload till storage is full. Remaining files will be enqueued with a proper error (insufficient quota). From here on, same behaviour as the current one.
  - Abort sync: nothing will be done because user does not want to sync some files and lose other ones. Nice to have: tell him how much extra space will be needed to do the sync.
Behaviour will be the same as before after enabling: new stuff will be enqueued and uploaded.
Danger: disabling and re-enabling the feature: cause of duplications. (question in first point)

zyberspace commented 8 years ago

This was already proposed in #454 but closed in favor of the "Select all" button.

However i for example have my pictures in multiple folders across the phone and going through all the folders and subfolders is quite a pain. (Using both, Whatsapp and Telegram already results in two different directories)

I recently uploaded all my pictures to amazon drive with a single click on a checkbox in the amazon photos app. I decided yesterday to switch to nextcloud and after having successfully installed the server today i was kinda disappointed that there is no real option to insta upload all my phone pictures. So i would really look foward to such a feature finally being implemented.

davivel commented 8 years ago

It's clear there is interest in this feature, that's why I labelled it this time instead of closing it. Unfortunately, can't make any estimation about its implementation right now. We need to sort out other things before.

In any case, consider the discussion open. We need, for instance, details how to integrate the feature in the current UI.

woeterman94 commented 6 years ago

2 years later, this still doesn't seem possible.

How can I force the camera upload to upload existing photos on the device?

theScrabi commented 6 years ago

Ok true this could be a useful enhancement. But a possible work around was to copy the images onto your computer and upload it from there.

Not perfect I know, but once you did it you don't have to bother about it anymore. However help for such enhancements is welcome :)

lnauta commented 1 year ago

I bumped into this while testing my company's ownCloud android app.

On both the company branded version (v2.19) android app and the regular ownCloud (v3.0.1) android app, only newly created photos are uploaded, while old photos in the DCIM folder are not being uploaded.

Thanks for considering this. For now I will upload the files by hand.

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