Can QField use attachment directories that are outside the project directory?

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I want to do this to avoid uploading & downloading large numbers of pictures that haven’t changed between importing the project and synchronizing it back, by cable. The ‘attachment directories’ section of the QField tab for Project Configuration can be made to produce a sister directory to the project export folder called something like ‘Photos’, by putting ‘../Photos’ in it, but I haven’t managed to get QField to put pictures there, even if it is copied as a sister folder to the QField project folder (all inside …/Android/data/ch.opengis.qfield).

The idea being that for synchronization and then re-export to the phone, the copying of the attachment folders would be told to ignore files with the same name that are already present.

Imported from GitHub discussion by @AveryAndrews on 2022-12-07T10:33:26Z

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The answer to your question is no, QField cannot use directories that are outside the project directory for attachments.

However, this feature in QFieldSync is going to improve the situation GitHub - opengisch/qfieldsync: Sync your projects to QField also for you, I guess?

Imported from GitHub comment by @suricactus on 2022-12-07T13:31:55Z

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Thanks! But I’m not sure which feature. Using an app such as one of the autosync ones to transfer the files between the project on the phone and the import and export folders used by QFieldSync might be the solution.

Imported from GitHub comment by @AveryAndrews on 2022-12-07T20:20:13Z

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Ah, sorry, I copied the wrong link. I mean this one here: Select subdirs in exported project to be copied back to the main project by suricactus · Pull Request #478 · opengisch/qfieldsync · GitHub

Imported from GitHub comment by @suricactus on 2022-12-07T23:48:19Z