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AlexAroth
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago
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Starting backup on several mobile devices

Hi, I use dropbox to backup my photos on my 2 androids and iphone and trying to figure out these: 1. How can I check the status of the backup for my mobile devices? All files seem to go into the s...
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  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    3 years ago

    When you're on the Photos tab in the mobile app, you should see a status message saying that it's scanning for new photos, or uploading images.

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AlexAroth
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago
Thanks for your reply!
The question I have left is if I can see the status of the uploads, ie. if the photo has been uploaded to Dropbox from my phone or not. Because I am uploading my old photos and the process has been interrulted for some reason a few times, and it's about 10 GB of data - too much to cross check it manually
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Jay
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3 years ago

When you're on the Photos tab in the mobile app, you should see a status message saying that it's scanning for new photos, or uploading images.

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