Moving files to a parent directory

[Andrea_Carpani]

Hello,

I’m trying to craft a rule to organize photos when the Android app syncs them from the Camera.

Photos are uploaded to a root folder called InstantUpload. I’d like to move photos into another root folder called Photos.

The following rule fails:

^(.*)$:../Photos/{photoDateTime|Y}/{photoDateTime|m}/{photoDateTime|d}/$0

with the following error:

NotPermittedException Invalid path "/.."

Is there a way to move files under different a top level directory?

Thanks

Andrea.

[powerflo]

You can do this with user-wide rules. Look at GitHub - powerflo/files_autorename: Nextcloud app to automatically rename and move files based on configurable rules

Put a .rename.user.conf with this content in the root of your user folder:

^InstantUpload/(.*)$:Photos/{photoDateTime|Y}/{photoDateTime|m}/{photoDateTime|d}/$1

[Mornsgrans]

But it will be easier, to configure the folder “Photos” in the settings of the Android app.

“Three bars”-menu - Settings - Automatic Upload - “Three dots” next to the folder to be uploaded from - Configure - Change “Remote Folder” - select “Photos”

[Andrea_Carpani]

Thanks @powerflo ,

you’re right, I should have read more carefully the README.

Andrea

[Andrea_Carpani]

@Mornsgrans indeed this seems to be a cleaner approach. I’ll experiment a bit with this setting.

Thanks,

Andrea