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Paul K.11
7 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Dropbox app android won't upload till app is opened
Hello, With my samsung S9 running on android 8.0.0 my dropbox app only uploads the pictures when I open the app. Before it was uploading always.
- 7 years ago
Sorry to hear this persists Paul.
This actually may be related to a feature on newer Samsung OS versions called App Optimization. It is designed to freeze applications that are deemed to be untouched by the user and may interfere with some background services. You may find this setting by:
- Go to your system (not our app's ) settings.
- Tap on Battery (found under System category)
- Find App optimization section and tap on detail
- Find Dropbox in the list and tap on it
- Change the option to "Disabled for"
- Your system should no longer freeze Dropbox now.
Let me know what you find please.
Rick G.20
6 years agoNew member | Level 2
Won't this automatically upload everything to the camera uploads folder then? I had this feature off for over a year so I can manually upload only the items I wanted in the folder that I chose. I do not want everything automatically uploaded but if that is the only fix for now then I guess I will turn it back on. Please advise if the recent app upload changed something here because automatic camera uploads has been off for a year and working fine by manually uploading what I want and where I want. Please advise. Thank you
Rick G.20
6 years agoNew member | Level 2
@Lusil I turned that camera uploads back on and that did not do the trick. Not sure what is happening but must have something to do with the latest app update so could you please have the developers check into this? Thank you for your time.
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