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earthangel4peace
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2 years ago

How to stop my camera photos from being backed up into Dropbox?

I have a desktop computer - HP - and in past I would put my camera  scan disk into side of computer and the photos would be downloaded to my computer in my PICTURES folder; now - for some reason they...
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earthangel4peace
New member | Level 1
2 years ago

Dinosaur Jayne here again. I downloaded the app to my home page and opened it and found BACKUPS...and I found where I could choose what to do with pictures and videos...do I want to select Take No Action or Ask Me Each time...

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Hannah
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2 years ago

Hey earthangel4peace, that would depend on your preference.

If you don't want the Dropbox app to take any action with the photos, choose the first one.

If you want it to ask you what to do with the photos every time the scan disk gets connected, choose the second option.

I hope this helps!

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