So I made the jump to Android for my phone and couldn't be happier( no offense to the iPhone users here, but for the hacking I like to do on my phone Android just offers more options ).
Android has a great app called "DropSync" this app allows you to map Dropbox folders with Phone folders and syncs the two, so if I make a change on the phone the modified file will get uploaded, and if I modify a file on the computer that file will get downloaded. This works great for photos on android.
I looked everywhere and was pretty astonished that nothing like this exists for our jailbroken iOS devices, all I would really like is this ability with photos on dropbox for my iPad. Basically I would like a jailbroke app( or app store app if possible ) that I could point that app to a parent folder on dropbox and all the subfolders would be created as albums on the iPad in original resolution with all exif data intact. Then if I modify that file in iPhoto, or any other app, the modified file would be uploaded to dropbox thus sharing with all my other devices.
I've tried multiple ways of trying to do this, but can't get the perfect solution. I've tried sharing my dropbox folder with sugarsync, but I don't see a good bi-directional way of sharing modifications, sugarsync is great for viewing the images, and I can download them to the camera roll, then I could modify it, share it back with sugarsync and manually replace the desktop file, but this is much too tedious.
I've tried PhotoSync which I thought would be an ok solution( giving up on the total cloud solution and just syncing my dropbox folder over wifi with PhotoSync ) however PhotoSync doesn't keep bi-directional synchronization as it only imports photos into one album, and on upload would go to a new PhotoSync director ... So it's no better than SugarSync.
I'm at a loss here, the only other solution I can think of is finding an app that, when I plug in the iPad to the computer, point it to the DCIM folder and have that app do the bi-directional syncing to figure out what and where something has been modified and transfer the files how it's needed. However two things.
1.) If I create a folder under the iPads DCIM folder, will that folder become an album?
2.) How do I make the iPads DCIM folder writeable? Right now when I navigate to it, it mounts as readonly.
This could really all be solved through iTunes if Apple just didn't re-size the images when syncing to the iPad, this should really just be an option in iTunes and it's stuff like this that made me make the switch to Android from the iPhone.
Any suggestions?
Android has a great app called "DropSync" this app allows you to map Dropbox folders with Phone folders and syncs the two, so if I make a change on the phone the modified file will get uploaded, and if I modify a file on the computer that file will get downloaded. This works great for photos on android.
I looked everywhere and was pretty astonished that nothing like this exists for our jailbroken iOS devices, all I would really like is this ability with photos on dropbox for my iPad. Basically I would like a jailbroke app( or app store app if possible ) that I could point that app to a parent folder on dropbox and all the subfolders would be created as albums on the iPad in original resolution with all exif data intact. Then if I modify that file in iPhoto, or any other app, the modified file would be uploaded to dropbox thus sharing with all my other devices.
I've tried multiple ways of trying to do this, but can't get the perfect solution. I've tried sharing my dropbox folder with sugarsync, but I don't see a good bi-directional way of sharing modifications, sugarsync is great for viewing the images, and I can download them to the camera roll, then I could modify it, share it back with sugarsync and manually replace the desktop file, but this is much too tedious.
I've tried PhotoSync which I thought would be an ok solution( giving up on the total cloud solution and just syncing my dropbox folder over wifi with PhotoSync ) however PhotoSync doesn't keep bi-directional synchronization as it only imports photos into one album, and on upload would go to a new PhotoSync director ... So it's no better than SugarSync.
I'm at a loss here, the only other solution I can think of is finding an app that, when I plug in the iPad to the computer, point it to the DCIM folder and have that app do the bi-directional syncing to figure out what and where something has been modified and transfer the files how it's needed. However two things.
1.) If I create a folder under the iPads DCIM folder, will that folder become an album?
2.) How do I make the iPads DCIM folder writeable? Right now when I navigate to it, it mounts as readonly.
This could really all be solved through iTunes if Apple just didn't re-size the images when syncing to the iPad, this should really just be an option in iTunes and it's stuff like this that made me make the switch to Android from the iPhone.
Any suggestions?