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James P.45's avatar
James P.45
New member | Level 2
10 years ago

Stuck "importing photos..."

My dropbox is set to auto import/upload my iphone photos, which it is doing. But it keeps telling me it's "importing photos..." and the menubar symbol is constantly the camera symbol that usually com...
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John G.139's avatar
John G.139
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

@Peter I find this very interesting. I shut off iCloud photo sync for 2 reasons. 1. I don't want my photos popping up on Apple TV for everyone to see. 2. It is redundant having a copy of them in photos and in Dropbox. I am doing a full sync now and turning Dropbox sync back on to see if the problem clears up and see if there is any correlation between the two. I don't think there is a connection between the programs, rather, photos app gave you visibility of what was holding your sync up. Will post again when I am done with this test. 

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