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rwright
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

How can I view the number of files and images in a folder?

This seems like a simple enough task but I can't figure out how to view the number of anything in a folder. For example, how many of my images have transferred from my phone to my dropbox account? What's the difference between the "photos" folder in the left hand menu (web version) vs "camera upload" folder on the app? I can see in the "camera upload" folder I have 4922 files. It doesn't distinguish between photos or videos. This number is useless to me unless I know the origin of the photos. I know I don't have 4922 photos on my phone. I have 8800 photos in my iCloud and 396 videos in my iCloud. On my phone, it says my photos are about 3G.

 

Maybe I'm asking too much, I used to have Box and I can see the number of items in a folder so I can see if what I'm uploading is matching. Why is this so hard?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks

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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
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    2 years ago

    Depending on how your phone is set up, your photos could be in different albums, and it's possible that not all of them were added to the list of your camera uploads settings in the Dropbox mobile app.

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    rwright
    Explorer | Level 4
    2 years ago

    Hello, I'm not using dropbox to back up my phone. I have the camera uploads in drop box that reflect 4968 image files, etc. My phone library has 9230 image files, etc. I'm running IOS18 but the problem existed before I updated. The number of files does not match. How do I get it to match.

    thanks

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
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    2 years ago

    Thanks for the additional information rwright 

    At this point, all you can do is to manually upload all the files that haven't been uploaded via the automatic camera uploads feature. 

    I hope this helps!

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