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Clayton King
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9 months ago
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No pop-up notification that I've added duplicates of a photo to Dropbox on iOS

Same here. On my iphone when I select several pictures and choose save to Dropbox, it would tell me if there was a duplicate. In the last day or so, it stopped giving me that warning and instead plac...
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  • Neal's avatar
    Neal
    5 months ago

    Hi Clayton King​,

    Generally uploading a single or batch file will automatically rename the file if it is a duplicate, this aligns with in-app behavior for files with the same name.

    When uploading from a 3rd party app, we attempt to detect duplicates, but may fall back on the default behavior if duplicates were not detected at the time of upload.

    I hope this helps.

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Neal
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5 months ago

Hi Clayton King​,

Generally uploading a single or batch file will automatically rename the file if it is a duplicate, this aligns with in-app behavior for files with the same name.

When uploading from a 3rd party app, we attempt to detect duplicates, but may fall back on the default behavior if duplicates were not detected at the time of upload.

I hope this helps.

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