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chuzpax01's avatar
chuzpax01
New member | Level 1
11 months ago

Remove photos from local Android device after adding them to Dropbox via camera uploads.

I wanted to use my dropbox account to be able to backup my files and remove them after a period of time from my phone, so files say older than a couple of months are only available online. And just k...
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Nancy
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11 months ago

Thanks for posting your idea on the forum, chuzpax01!

Can you give me an example of a folder that you’d like to automatically add to Dropbox with camera uploads? If you've already created one, are you unable to see it among the albums of your camera uploads settings?

Do you also mean that you’d like the entire folder to be added to your “camera uploads” directory as a subfolder? 

Let me know more details.

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