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winfried12345
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10 months ago

Plugging in my phone to my computer uploads duplicate Camera Uploads files

Hello all, sorry if it exist already (did not find the response to this): I use my iPhone SE (2) app to automatically do the camera upload, which works fine to get the media on the dropbox. But, so...
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Mark
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10 months ago

I've found the same, but, worked it out that it was often a hidden photo/file on my device for ones I'd edited or amended in some way. For example doing crops/slight colour corrections etc. I suspect the device keeps the original even if you dont see it. 

The other bit I seemed to discover was it was uploading different formats compared to phone - again, usually linked to the above. 

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