Can’t select a photo from Dropbox

[Philip Roy]

I’m a long time Reunion user (even from the HyperCard days) and have my Reunion files and folders in Dropbox, so I can access them using ReunionTouch when away from home and my Mac. My Reunion folder is very well structured and I always add images there first in Dropbox before linking to them in Reunion.

I’m currently away from home and we have a new addition to our family. I have added an image of her into the photos folder of my Reunion files in Dropbox (all nicely structured and named), but…

Every time I try to add a picture in ReunionTouch on my iPad to this new person, the only option it is giving me is to add the image from the Photos app on the iPad. I don’t want to do that…I want to choose the image in my Reunion folder on Dropbox.

Surely, if I have connected ReunionTouch to a Dropbox family file etc, the app will let me link to an image file in Dropbox, won’t it? I can’t understand why an app that utilises Dropbox wouldn’t let you use it?

[Gregg]

ReunionTouch can only add to images in the Photos app. Try this...

• Locate the image in Dropbox
• tap and hold the image until a menu appears
• tap on the "Save to Photos" menu item

This will move the image into your Photos app where ReunionTouch can find it and add it to a person's media.

[Philip Roy]

Ok, I don’t want to do that. I’ll end up with two copies of the image in Dropbox and a folder/image structure I don’t want. As I use the folder structure to copy across to a TNG website, it’s just going to make things messy. I guess I’ll have to wait until I am back home with my Mac again.

Please consider this a feature request. That if ReunionTouch can utilise Dropbox, image selection should be able to also.