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Can photos I delete from my phone automatically be deleted from Camera Uploads too?
My iPhone photo library is automatically backed up to my Dropbox (which is great) but I find myself having to frequently manually delete photos previously uploaded to Dropbox when I delete them from my iPhone.
Is there an option where this can be done automatically? It's easy to accumulate thousands of photos that I no longer need backed up on Dropbox (such as screenshots) and manually deleting them can be very time consuming. Ideally there should be a rclone type synchronization feature added to the the Dropbox iPhone app.
Thank you.
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I did finally manage to find a workaround to accomplishing this, though it requires some manual work.
1- Using the Mac Photos app, I do an export all and save all my photos to a new folder on my computer.
2- I copy this new folder to Dropbox and let it finish syncing. Dropbox seems to be smart enough to not re-upload any identical files that's already on Dropbox, so the sync is done very quickly as it only uploads just the new files.
3- I delete the old folder that still contains photos I have deleted from iCloud and this new folder becomes my latest synced copy.
Thanks, there are several 3rd party Android apps that will actually do a normal sync instead of just only one-way uploads.
On iOS though I’ve not been able to find an app that does a normal sync and isn’t one-way uploads only like the Dropbox app itself.- Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
Thanks for posting to the Dropbox Community, allidav!
The "sync" between your phone and the Dropbox app through Camera Uploads is actually one-way.
That's why the photos you delete from your phone, don't get deleted from Camera Uploads.
I will however, pass your feedback along to our team about this.
If you have any questions, let me know.
