[docs] Move preserving folder structure into its own subsection
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# Albums
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Make the most of your albums and personalize them to your preferences with these
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simple yet effective features.
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## Preserving folder structure
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When you upload photos and videos into Ente using the desktop app - whether by
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dragging and dropping a folder or zip file (or selecting it in the "Upload"
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selector), or by setting up a [folder watch](/photos/features/watch-folders) -
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the app will provide you various options.
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### Uploading files or a folder without nesting
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If you are trying to just upload some files, then the app will provide you a
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selector where you can choose to (a) uploads all the files to an existing Ente
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album, or (b) create a new album.
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Similarly, if you upload a folder without any nested folders, than the app will
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ask if you want to upload them to an existing Ente album, or create a new album.
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The app will also try to intelligently determine the name of the new album.
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### Uploading a nested folder
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If the folder you're trying to upload has nesting and you select the option to
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create a new album, you will see two options - **A single album** and **Separate
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albums**.
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- **Single album** will create a new Ente album with the same name as the
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folder's name, and will then sync all the changes in the folder (and any
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nested folders) to this single album.
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- **Separate albums** will create separate albums for each nested folder of
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the selected folder, and will then sync the changes in each nested folder
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separately.
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- For example, suppose you have a folder name `Photos` on your computer, and
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inside that folder you have two nested folders named `New Year` and
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`Summer`. In the single album mode, the app will create an Ente album named
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"Photos" and put all the files from both `New Year` and `Summer` there. In
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the separate album mode, the app will create two Ente albums, "New Year" and
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"Summer", each only containing the respective files.
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- In separate album mode, only nested folders that have at least one file will
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result in the creation of a new album – empty folders (or folders that only
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contain other folders) will be ignored.
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## Rename album
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@@ -30,29 +30,11 @@ allows you to automate backups to ente's cloud.
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drag and drop the folder here.
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3. If the folder has nesting, you will see two options - **A single album** and
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**Separate albums**.
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- **Single album** will create a new Ente album with the same name as the
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folder's name, and will then sync all the changes in the folder (and any
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nested folders) to this single album.
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- **Separate albums** will create separate albums for each nested folder of
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the selected folder, and will then sync the changes in each nested folder
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separately.
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- For example, suppose you have a folder name `Photos` on your computer, and
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inside that folder you have two nested folders named `New Year` and
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`Summer`. In the single album mode, the app will create an Ente album
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named "Photos" and put all the files from both `New Year` and `Summer`
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there. In the separate album mode, the app will create two Ente albums,
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"New Year" and "Summer", each only containing the respective files.
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- In separate album mode, only nested folders that have at least one file
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will result in the creation of a new album – empty folders (or folders
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that only contain other folders) will be ignored.
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**Separate albums**. This work similarly to the
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[options you see when you drag and drop a folder with nested folders](/photos/features/albums#preserving-folder-structure).
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4. After choosing any of the above options, the folder will be initially synced
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to ente's cloud and monitored for any changes. You can now close the dialog
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to Ente's cloud and monitored for any changes. You can now close the dialog
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and the sync will continue in background.
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5. When the app is syncing in the background it'll show a small progress status
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