Cloud Storage Sync
Connect Dropbox or Google Drive so Spatiko organizes each order into raw and delivery folders in your own cloud storage and imports your finished media.
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Spatiko can use your own Dropbox or Google Drive as the working store for every order. You connect it once, and from then on each shoot gets a tidy folder structure in your cloud, and your finished files flow from there into Spatiko — ready to deliver. With Dropbox, that sync is automatic: files you drop into an order’s delivery folder are pulled in on their own, no importing step.
Connect Dropbox or Google Drive
You link Dropbox or Google Drive one time from your settings. Spatiko keeps the connection secure and refreshed, so you don’t have to reconnect it. For the setup steps, see connecting your tools. And for the full mechanics of the Dropbox connection — the exact permissions Spatiko requests, folder selection, and how auto-import works under the hood — see the Dropbox integration guide.
Once you’re connected, Spatiko treats your cloud storage as the home for each order’s files.
One connection for your whole team
An owner or admin connects Dropbox or Google Drive once for the business — there’s a single storage connection, not one per person. From then on, everyone on your team works with order files right inside Spatiko: uploading, sending shoots out for editing, and delivering, all through the platform.
That means your teammates don’t each need their own Dropbox account or a paid Dropbox seat to handle the files — they never open Dropbox directly. Outside editors don’t need an account either; they just get a share link to the folder. One Dropbox subscription covers your whole operation instead of a seat per person.
The per-order folder scaffold
For every order, Spatiko creates a folder scaffold in your cloud storage with two folders:
01-Raw— the originals to be edited.02-Delivery— the finished files, ready to deliver.
That structure is consistent across every order, so you always know where things live. Besides creating the folders, the only writing Spatiko does is on your behalf: files you upload through Spatiko on a cloud-backed order land in these same folders, so your cloud stays the single home for the order’s files.
How media flows in
Cloud storage is an inbound source. When you place finished files in an order’s 02-Delivery folder, Spatiko imports them onto the order and generates the web, thumbnail, and MLS sizes it needs. The full-resolution original stays put in your cloud folder.
How the import happens depends on the provider:
- Dropbox is automatic. A background sync watches your Dropbox and brings in anything dropped into an order’s Delivery folder — you don’t have to lift a finger.
- Google Drive is manual. You pick the folder or files to import when you’re ready. There’s no automatic Drive watcher.
Cloud storage is one way to get media onto an order. If you’d rather send files straight to Spatiko, see uploading your media.
Powering editing and delivery
The same cloud folders drive your editing workflow. When you send an order out for editing, editors get a share link to the 01-Raw folder and drop their finished work into 02-Delivery — which then imports just like your own uploads. See sending media for editing.
At delivery, a cloud-stored order’s original-resolution download comes straight from your connected 02-Delivery folder, so the client always gets the true original. For the full picture of galleries and downloads, see delivering your media.
What cloud sync is not
Cloud storage sync is not a backup service. Spatiko does not push or back up your delivered media out to Dropbox or Google Drive after the fact — media flows from your cloud into Spatiko. What Spatiko writes to your cloud is limited to the 01-Raw and 02-Delivery folders it scaffolds for each order and the files you upload through Spatiko itself, which land in those folders.