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Setting up Photo Download Workflow

Lohita

Hi Everyone, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for dockers / VMs to help me automate the following scenario:

 

My wife and I shoot on film and as part of getting the photos developed we are also given the scanned photos. These photos are emailed to be in a dropbox link by the photolab. The link would be to a shared folder on Dropbox, and will contain a number of folders, one for each roll being developed, with the relevant photos in each.

 

Currently, when I receive the email with the photos, I copy the files to my dropbox and then use rclone on a Windows VM (the VM also does a few other things) on Unraid to copy the files over to the Unraid array. Ideally, I want to get to a point where I can forward a copy of the email to a specified email address and then have a way that something (app / docker / vm / whatever) gets the link to the shared Dropbox folder, and downloads the contents to the array.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might do this?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

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Depend on your level of knowledge in programming. You can simply make a windows service to runs every minute which run powershell, c#, java that simply connect to your email, read the emails and find the link and do everything itself

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