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Link Camera Pics with DropBox

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Right now I am attempting to use a symbolic link to automatically have all photos I take with my Incredible sync with dropbox. I have full access to all files and directories; permissions verified as drwxrwxrwx and -rwxrwxrwx. The command string I'm running looks something like this

adb shell
$ su
# cd /sdcard/dropbox/Photos
/sdcard/dropbox/Photos # ln -s /sdcard/DCIM/100MEDIA .
ln -s /sdcard/DCIM/100MEDIA .
ln: ./100MEDIA: Operation not permitted

I have also tried manually naming the file instead of having the ln command attempt to create it. Please let me know where I am going wrong with my command string if you recognize it.

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If anyone has had success linking the camera pictures with the dropbox folder automatically or has changed the default SD save folder please enlighten the forum. :)
 
My understanding is that Dropbox doesn't send anything to or from your phone automatically. The only time a file gets transferred is when you go into the app and tell it to do so.

In my experience, even if you put a file in the Dropbox folder on your phone, it will not upload to your Dropbox until you actually go in and select it.
 
jgscott987 said:
My understanding is that Dropbox doesn't send anything to or from your phone automatically. The only time a file gets transferred is when you go into the app and tell it to do so.

In my experience, even if you put a file in the Dropbox folder on your phone, it will not upload to your Dropbox until you actually go in and select it.
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This is true. Unless, of course, you have evidence to the contrary.

-Nkk
 
You can not create symbolic links on the SD card filesystem. Because that filesystem is FAT. And FAT does not support symlinks. Yes, I would prefer a real linux filesystem instead of that Windows crap, too!
 
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