Dropbox file copy with filters

[River_City_Media]

Hello everyone!

I recently signed up for Make and created my first scenario. I am hoping to use the scenario to copy completed photographs from one location to another. I use Dropbox to send raw unedited files to my editor after they edit them they place the completed files in a completed photos folder. On a typical day I send 3 to 4 jobs to my editor to work on. Each job has its own folder with 4 sub folders that store the raw photo and video files plus two completed photo and video folders.

I recently employed a social media manager and need to send them content to post. Rather than give them access to the main folder which has both the raw files and completed files for 100’s of jobs. I am trying to use Make to copy the completed photos to a new folder for the SMM.

I had Chat GPT-4o help me set it up. Here is what I did.

1.	Add Dropbox Module:
•	In the scenario editor, click on the plus (+) icon to add a new module.
•	Search for “Dropbox” and select the “Watch Files” module.
2.	Configure the Watch Files Module:
•	Folder: Set the folder to monitor. For example, set it to the top-level folder like /RCM (Spiro Uploads)/2024/Q2.
•	Recursive: Enable recursive to monitor all subfolders.
•	Limit: Set the limit to the number of files you want to process at a time. You can start with 10.
3.	Add Filter:
•	Click on the funnel icon to add a filter.
•	Set up a filter to only process files in 03-Completed-Photos or 04-Completed-Videos folders.
•	Condition: path_lower contains 03-completed-photos OR path_lower contains 04-completed-videos.

3. Add Dropbox Copy File Module

   1. Add Another Dropbox Module:
      • Click on the plus (+) icon after the filter and add another “Dropbox” module.
      • Select “Copy a File” module.
   2. Configure the Copy a File Module:
      • Source File Path: Set it to path_lower from the previous module.
      • Destination Folder Path: Set the destination folder path to your social media manager’s folder, for example, /SocialMediaManager.

4. Set Up Scheduling

   1. Set Up Scheduling:
      • Click on the clock icon in the scenario editor to set up scheduling.
      • Choose how often you want the scenario to run (e.g., every 15 minutes, hourly, etc.).

5. Save and Activate

   1. Save the Scenario:
      • Click the save button to save your scenario.
   2. Activate the Scenario:
      • Turn on the scenario by switching the toggle to “On”.

After running this I have not been able to get it to actually move any files. When it runs the filter results show that it’s looking in the wrong folder locations either the 01-Raw-Photos or 02-Raw-Video folder but not the 03-Completed-Photos folder.

Happy to answer any questions and would love some help getting this setup.

[Henk-Operative]

Hi @River_City_Media

Welcome to the Make community! I hope you will share and receive a lot of knowledge here.

Make is a powerful but delicate platform. You can do almost anything you want with it, but each use case is very specific. ChatGPT can help with the boilerplate stuff, but you will only gain a good understanding of the platform if you build things (and fail, but build again) yourself.

I advise you to follow the academy and to have a look at the help articles:
https://academy.make.com/
https://make.com/en/help
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