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JacobLee
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Camera Uploads backup HEIC to JPG conversion

I want to start backing up my iPhone photos to the Camera Uploads feature. I have 2 questions:   In the upload settings you can choose HEIC or JPG setting for the files. As iPhone photos are all d...
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JacobLee
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Thanks for your info on this. From experience I realise JPG's can have different levels of compression so I was wondering how heavily compressed the original HEIC files are by Dropbox's converter. It doesn't let you adjust it in the settings

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Cynthiaa
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Good question. What about transferring them yourself, is that too much work? I have rarely used their camera upload, so I was assuming that you were creating a folder yourself and storing the photos there. In that case, of course, there is no compression. I think a Dropbox tech has to weigh in on this. But, again, if the photos are important, I would store them in a file structure you create yourself. 

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