Those who use Cloud services, i.e. those who upload files, photos, videos and music to an online space such as Facebook, need (at least for me) to transfer these files to another more flexible service so that they can keep one copy both on the internet and on the PCs and cell phones used. In the title of this post we talk about Dropbox because I believe it is the most natural destination for Facebook photos but the same principle can also be applied to other services.
For example, you may wish to transfer all photos uploaded online via Instagram or to Flickr or Picasa to your PC, Dropbox or Skydrive or Box.
To transfer personal photos from Facebook, including those of friends where you have been tagged, normally, you must first download the Facebook photos and albums to your PC and then upload the files to the online service which, for convenience we say is Dropbox but that it can also be Skydrive, Google Drive or Box.
There are some free services that allow you to do this automatically .
Once the transfer is activated, every time a photo is added on Facebook, it is also uploaded to Dropbox and automatically becomes visible also on the computer or mobile phone (if you use the synchronization client available for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, Android).
Among the free services there are several but two are clearly better.
1) IFTTT is a powerful online service that allows you to connect online accounts with automatic actions and updates .
You can easily create a rule so that new photos in which you are tagged on Facebook are also uploaded to Dropbox but the rule is not retroactive and does not apply to photos already present in albums.
2) The Dropbox Automator solution of the WappWolf site (no longer exists) is a service similar to IFTTT that works automatically for current photos and for those that will be added in the future.
With Dropbox Automator Facebook photos are passed in Dropbox (or Google Drive or Box) to their original size .
Depending on what you want to do, you have to choose one of the 4 services on the site:
there are 4 Automators: Facebook, Dropbox, Google Drive and Box .
If you choose to use Dropbox, when you create a new automation, you are asked to indicate the condition which is of the type: " Every time you put a file in the foo folder ".
So if you want to transfer photos from Facebook to Dropbox, you have to choose the Facebook automator, vice versa instead you use the Dropbox automator.
After choosing the automation, you can indicate an effect which, for the purpose of this post, is to upload the new Facebook photos in which I am tagged (so every time a new photo appears in the album " photo in which there it's me ") in a Dropbox folder .
Choosing the right option and after authorizing the Wappwolf site to connect to Dropbox, you can save the automation that will be active and will always work, until it is stopped manually.
The limit of WappWolf is that the free account has a limit of 100 files transferred from one service to another per day.
When the limit is exceeded, the automatic service stops and resumes after 24 hours without any user intervention, which is perfect.
Personally I was looking for an online service of this type to keep a copy on the computer of the photos in which I am tagged on Facebook and to see them also on the Android phone, on the iPhone or on the iPad through the fast and flexible Dropbox, without going through the Facebook application ( which on Android works badly).
