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seftonbarn
Helpful | Level 6
7 years ago
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How can I force the mobile app to upload photos?

When I first used Dropbox a few years ago, as soon as I took a photo on my androad phone the photo would be uploaded to my dropbox and synced to my PC.  Nowadays I can take a picture on my android in...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    7 years ago
    The steps to upload images manually can be found here. 
     
    Let me know if this is successful!
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seftonbarn
Helpful | Level 6
7 years ago
Jay wrote:
The steps to upload images manually can be found here. 
 
Let me know if this is successful!

Thanks Jay

 

I can't explain this but all I did was open the app on the phone (not change any settings) and then all of a sudden it started uploading to the PC.  Restarted phone.  Tested again and it appears to be uploading automatically again.  Strange.

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Jay
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7 years ago
Thanks for the info, let me know if this occurs again!

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