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Chandiggity
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

File size changes from original upload

hi Dropbox community   I uploaded a few movie files that are around 30 gb each.  When I see them in my dropbox folder, first I need to click on the highest quality version in order to see it in i...
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Macadamia
New member | Level 2
3 years ago
I know this is a common question
But I've spent 45min reading user-questions as far back as a decade, with no clarity on how to download my photos at their original size

Im an iPhone user, and my settings & photo optimization is OFF.
How come, when I upload a 4mb picture to Dropbox, then turn around click "save image" and save back to my phone,
...the image is now 92kb ??

Thanks
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    Hannah
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    3 years ago

    Hey Macadamia, thanks for reaching out to our Community.

     

    Dropbox doesn't alter your files in any way when you upload or download them; can you let us know how the picture in question was uploaded to Dropbox?

     

    And do you see the same with all your image files?

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