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How to automatically remove duplicate photos
It would take a lifetime to individually remove duplicate photos. I need to find a way to remove them quickly and efficiently.
Nancy
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHi Elizabeth Tien! Hope you’re doing well.
The duplicate photos that you mention; they’re all saved within different folders on your Dropbox account, and they have the same name. Am I right?
If yes, then I’m afraid there’s no automated feature to delete those at once. If a file is uploaded in a folder, and another file is already there under the same name, then Dropbox will overwrite the existing file with the new one, thus avoiding the duplicates.
But if files under the same name are saved in different folders, then you’ll need to find them and delete them one by one.
One thing that may help is searching for them based on their name, so that they’re easier to locate.
Hope this clarifies things a little bit.
i have the same issue - i have camera uploads set up and i'm seeing many MANY files duplicated some 4 or more times. all files are in one folder - i'm using the dropbox app on my iphone to upload the photos via camera uploads and i'm seeing them in the my dropbox accessed via web browser - thank you!
