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ncole
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago
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How do I stop Dropbox from Pulling Images from My uploaded files and displaying them?

How do I stop Dropbox from Pulling Images from My uploaded files and displaying them?
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    3 years ago
    ncole wrote:

    Any and all images from those files are also now showing in the 'Photos' area.

    The Photos page is a special page that shows all of the images throughout your entire Dropbox account. There's no way to disable this or exclude folders from being included.

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JungleT
Helpful | Level 6
5 months ago

I'm white-hot furious now.

Your cretinous "Photos" tab isn't a copy of my image files, it's just another view of them isn't it?

So that when the needlessly obtuse iPhone Dropbox interface shows you that 'Dropbox' is using 17Gb of data, and you search for why, find "Photos" and delete them, 500-1000 at a time, what's happening is you're deleting the only copy of your treasured, carefully stored 30-year photo collection that you had curated into individual dated folders with descriptions.

The interface of "Photos" here on the web versoon is so bad it's obvious whoever made it didn't believe in it either.  "233 photos selected" while the column header says "322"; you delete them and it's "deleting 185 files".

Dropbox has plummeted in my estimation.

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Rich
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5 months ago
JungleT wrote:

Your cretinous "Photos" tab isn't a copy of my image files, it's just another view of them isn't it?

Correct. The Photos page on the website is a special view that shows all image files from everywhere in your account. The Photos tab in the mobile apps works the same way.

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