# Pictures are saved in a DCIM Folder witch is not synchronised **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask the Community\ **Created:** [27 August 2026 08:08 UTC](https://community.qfield.org/t/pictures-are-saved-in-a-dcim-folder-witch-is-not-synchronised/1851 "2026-08-27T08:08:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![cuprico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/46a35a/32.png) [@cuprico](https://community.qfield.org/u/cuprico)\ **Post date:** [11 September 2026 22:53 UTC](https://community.qfield.org/t/pictures-are-saved-in-a-dcim-folder-witch-is-not-synchronised/1851/8 "2026-09-11T22:53:12Z")
Still haven’t had time to test this, but rechecking everything I think I now better understand what is happening. My guess is that you are losing your “Vermessung” project configuration by using this workflow. When you directly open a file, QField is probably creating an ad-hoc project with some default configurations, especially on some less trivial settings such as attachment path definitions (such as relative/absolute and other details). When you open the “Vermessung” as a “Individual Datasets Base Map”, you most likely aren’t bringing the whole project “plus some layers”; it sounds reasonable that the ad-hoc project’s settings get precedence over the Base Map’s because the function might have been designed to provide just a “custom background”. The way you describe you are using the “Individual Datasets Base Map” sounds more like a workaround to dynamically add layers to a project on QField, and not just as a way to have some custom background to accompany the isolated dataset. If this is the case, sadly it is a big current limitation of QField; if you want to add layers to a project, you have to do it on QGIS. If you need this functionality, ~~consider adding your voice on the [Ideas platform](https://ideas.qfield.org/) so that the developers can know there is demand for features that address this issue. For example, there currently is [this request](https://ideas.qfield.org/app-feature-requests/p/ability-to-create-new-layers-in-a-project-within-qfield-app) to add the ability to create new layers. Maybe an alternative to what is proposed there is to be able to just “copy” a layer into an existing project; perhaps an option to add it as a temporary/scratch layer can be helpful to avoid polluting the actual project.~~ Scratch that, I keep forgetting about [this plugin](https://community.qfield.org/t/new-plugin-to-load-read-only-layers/1266) by the man himself! Maybe that can be of help. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.qfield.org/t/pictures-are-saved-in-a-dcim-folder-witch-is-not-synchronised/1851)._