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flyhen
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

How can I only upload the photos from my phone and not my computer to Dropbox?

Hello All,   I've noticed that (for awhile now) after I enabled the "Turn on camera uploads" on my iphone, whenever I had the iOS Dropbox App open, it not only uploaded all the photos in the ipho...
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flyhen
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

This has nothing to do with icloud sync, 1. I don't have enough space for that 2. I didn't enable anything, so that's never the case.

I just checked now, when I open the dropbox app on iphone, it was looking for new photos to backup, and interestingly, this time, it was about to backup my new photos in the "Download" folder in Mac (also a symlink folder with dropbox ).

The plot thickens.

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Jay
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2 years ago

Hi flyhen, it sounds like you've enabled the Dropbox Backup feature on the Mac, is that correct? This is why files from those folders are appearing in Dropbox. 

 

Which folders did you select on your phone for the camera upload feature, since it should be possible to select more than just the camera roll?

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    flyhen
    Explorer | Level 3
    2 years ago

    I checked, but I did not enable the backup feature on the desktop app.

     

     

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      Jay
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      2 years ago

      Since it says 'Manage backups', it means that something is enabled there, could you click that to see if Dropbox Backup is enabled for that device?

       

      If you tap 'All photos' on the iPhone, what options do you get?

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        flyhen
        Explorer | Level 3
        2 years ago

        I checked, all my macbooks that are connected, have the backup disabled.

         

        As far as my iphone goes, this is what it is...

         

           

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