cloud uploading help

Banzai_Joe · 11 Sep 2015 at 16:31

Hi all,

anyone know of an easy way to accomplish the following without resorting to expensive 'business' versions.

Got about 8 site managers who take pictures of sites all around the UK. All pics need to auto upload to the 'cloud' and then to a folder on a server for an administrator back at base to be able to do something with them at her end.

Dropbox could work but it throws ALL pics into a single folder called 'Camera Uploads' so you'd have to sift through them all to find out which site the pic is from and who took it etc. (users folders would have been great here)
All users currently have OneDrive accounts, but the admin would have to login to each of their accounts to access the pics which is a nut ache.
Dropbox is better for this if it wasn't for the single folder thing, which i guess is understandable as it a single account and doesn't expect multiple users will be uploading to it.

I'm looking at File Transporters which i have 4 of, but last time i played with it the app software wasn't great. Might be worth looking into again.

Any advice welcome and appreciated, thanks.

andshrew · 11 Sep 2015 at 18:06

I'm not sure what you mean with One Drive by saying the administrator would need to log into their individual accounts to access the photos. What you would do is that each of the site managers would share the folder where the photos are being stored with the account of your administrator. The administrator would then be able to access One Drive via their own account and access all the files.

You could do similar with Google Drive as an alternative.

thenewoc · 12 Sep 2015 at 11:04

Google Plus has a photo app which uploads automatically, but then each user would need to share their pics with the admin person back at base.

Edit: I see Google Photos is now its' own app and has parted from its' reliance to Google Plus. So you can now use it as a standalone app or alongside Google Plus. Basically it would auto upload in the background to a private user folder on Google's servers then the user can choose which photos to share with someone else. The admin user I think would know who had shared the photos with them and thus know where they were of but the user could probably GPS tag the pics automatically with most smart phones.

chroniclard · 12 Sep 2015 at 11:38

Hmm, could actually work with Plex but you would need a Plex Pass subscription for each device(about £3 a month) and a "server" somewhere with Plex server on it.

plex server, each user with own folder, photos automatically upload to their folder, make sure photos tagged with location.

GAM8LE · 12 Sep 2015 at 11:41

andshrew said:
I'm not sure what you mean with One Drive by saying the administrator would need to log into their individual accounts to access the photos. What you would do is that each of the site managers would share the folder where the photos are being stored with the account of your administrator. The administrator would then be able to access One Drive via their own account and access all the files.

You could do similar with Google Drive as an alternative.

This advice would have the least impact to the 8 site managers in terms of their productivity and continuity, and will mean its a simple task of sending the admin their share links from onedrive

Share their folders as read only and edit and the admin can only view that folder to get the pics from each of the 8 site managers.

Simples

Banzai_Joe · 14 Sep 2015 at 08:17

Whilst it would seem simple guys, the reason for this thread is because our site managers are quite frankly, divvies!
Their Boss wants them to be able to take a pic/video and for it to automatically upload to a cloud solution like onedrive without them having to share specific folders with specific people because they'd never actually action it.
Onedrive simply uploads a default "camera roll" folder. I don't think you can change this.
Dropbox would have been ideal but for the fact that again you can't specify a folder per person.

chroniclard · 15 Sep 2015 at 15:42

Few other cloud solutions around you can run on your own server. Tonido is one, free version and more enterprisey paid version.

Can auto upload photos and videos to their folder.

*Edit, need the paid service for multiple users, called FileCloud, $999 per year for 20 users. Probably some similar solutions around.