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chicagojami
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4 years ago

Am I safe to delete content off Dropbox, or will they get deleted from my phone too?

Once I've uploaded all the pics from my iphone to dropbox, can I delete them off my phone or will they also delete off dropbox? iCloud has scarred me bc I thought it was true storage but it turns out...
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chicagojami
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

I just sat through a long backup of 86,100 pics from my iphone to dropbox. Once it got to 86,100, I saw the upload number start to go down. Once it got down to 86, 080. I closed out of the app because I didn't want to lose more pictures. Then when I looked at the pics it had saved, it didn't save any pics from July-Aug and only a few from Sept. It's so weird. It's missing pics from my daughter's bday and our vacation. Any idea why the download # went up and then started falling? Any idea why it's not saving all my pics? I need to move to my new iphone 14 today but I don't feel comfortable doing that until all my pics are backed up in 2 places.

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