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STILL can't get my Dropbox photos to show up in my Android gallery
I've read all the related forum posts dating back to 2012 with no avil.
Problem: I use dropbox mostly for photoshop files and JPG photos. I have many folders and subfolders with pictures and files. Today I started uploading some of these pictures to instagram, so I first selected a folder and 'saved to device'. This did not show these pictures in my Android Gallery app where I need them to be despite saving them to folders with gallery pictures in them. So I selected individual pictures, used the same process and still they are not showing. I found a workaround online by selecting a single picture, clicking 'export to' then selecting instagram. While this did work, it only works for single pictures and I still can't see them in my gallery.
I am now trying to upload multiple pictures to instagram in a single 'carousel' post, but I am unable to select 'export to' instagram with multiple selected.
I need to find a way to get my pictures to show up in my Android gallery. I have already looked into the left 'Photos' tab of Dropbox and non of the pictures in my folders show up there, so I am unable to add them to a sub folder named 'Photos' (This was the best solution according to other online users)
Any help avaliable for this?? Thanks
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- Lusil
Dropbox Staff
Hey koelooptiemanna, thanks for reaching out to us and sorry to hear about your frustration.
I've moved your post here, where other users have expressed a similar concern.
Please note that our dev team is aware of this issue and are looking into it.
We'll make sure to keep you posted with any further updates.
In the meantime, let us know if you have any other questions, thanks!
I have finally got a quick workaround - go out of instagram, open your File Manager (where you can see all the files on your phone), navigate to some of the pics, go back in to instagram and they magically appear in your instagram gallery. Maddening to work out but simple now I know. Hope that helps!
I had the same problem as described in this thread and the answer from Yek is the only workaround that worked so far.
@Dropbox-Staff: If it's still not clear what is the issue, I can provide you as well a video the next time I export my photos.
- Thanks, that worked. But I am more than disappointed with Dropbox performance not getting this fixed after such a long time. For me another reason to cancel my subscription asap.
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