[Feature Request] Scheduled backup/upload times

[sami155]

Hi there,
Sometimes I screenshot things, take pictures or download videos and move them to a different folder depending on the content.

But they get uploaded to ente almost immediately after taking them.
A configured scheduled uploading time would help resolve this problem. For example, I myself would set it to Midnight or 22:00-07:00, because I sort them at the end of the day. A configurable time would be great.

Thank you

[vishnukvmd]

Thanks for the feedback, a workaround for now would be to unselect folders you want to manually curate (Settings > Backup > Folders), and select them when you wish to back them up.

Alternatively, if the volume of photos isn't high, you could disable auto-upload for all albums and manually upload them one at a time to an album of your choice.

[cpeel]

Having a bit more control over when photos are uploaded would be beneficial. I often take many photos (up to a dozen) of something and spend the next several minutes poking through them to delete all of them but the best one. But Ente has already uploaded all of them because I'm on wifi.

Disabling uploads on the camera folder, taking the pictures, and re-enabling it is doable but clunky and I risk forgetting to turn it back on. I'm going to try putting my phone in airplane mode -- that's also clunky but I'm not going to forget to re-enable it.

Some possible ideas around this:

• Have an option to only upload when charging. Google Photos use to have this feature which was awesome but no longer does.
• Have an option to only upload photos after certain number of hours after they were taken (or changed or whatever timestamp is available).

These may, or may not, address @sami155's needs.