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Connie M.4's avatar
Connie M.4
Helpful | Level 5
21 days ago

I deleted a photo from my phone and it got deleted from Dropbox

I deleted a photo from my phone while I was out. When I got home there was a dropbox notification that the photo had been deleted from Camera Uploads. Earlier support says this shouldn't happen. 

How do I disable this feature?

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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
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    Connie M.4 wrote:

    I deleted a photo from my phone while I was out. When I got home there was a dropbox notification that the photo had been deleted from Camera Uploads.

    Deleting a photo from your phones camera roll/gallery will not delete it from your Dropbox account. There is no mechanism within the Dropbox app that can do that.

    However, if you deleted a photo within the Dropbox app on your phone, then you're deleting it directly from your account online, not from your phone's camera roll.

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