Conversations: Store attachments in unique folder for each contact or conversation

[alexara]

Current situation is that all image files go to:

/storage/emulated/0/Pictures/Conversations

and all other files go to:

/storage/emulated/0/Conversations

all with encrypted file names.
This makes it impossible to filter files from one conversation, which you would like to delete/backup/open etc.

Suggestion: Since each contact as a unique name and each MUC has one it'd be easy and very clear to store files from each conversation in it's own folder:

/storage/emulated/0/Conversations/logs/<jid/username>
/storage/emulated/0/Conversations/files/<jid/username>
/storage/emulated/0/Pictures/Conversations/<jid/username>

Since the number of MUCs can grow large over time and so the number of folders, it may be wise to store all "muc"-folders within a subdirectory:

/storage/emulated/0/Pictures/Conversations/muc/<muc-id>

Kind Regards

[kriztan]

:+1: the cryptic filenames are not usefull. It would be better to store it this way yyyyMMdd_HHmmssSSS with the sent/received date and time. So clearing a chat and fetching from MAM again does not cause duplicate files like it is currently the case because files have different filenames on each download.

[tmolitor-stud-tu]

This would be very nice, indeed!
+1

[therob84]

Is there any work going on in this matter (also same question for in #1047 and #2285)?
I find it is way more an important feature than nice new emojis...
Anywhere I can help in beta testing?

[iNPUTmice]

The way some (most?) gallery apps work is that it would clutter the gallery with folders of thousands of contacts. this is not desirable.

[Hund]

Most galleries has two views today: by folder and by date (new to old). I'm pretty sure that everyone's using the date view.

[aslmx]

If subfolders are really not wanted, is there any chance to discuss the filenaming then please?