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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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Jeremy C.12's avatar
Jeremy C.12
Explorer | Level 3
10 years ago

I finally gave up and deleted all photos but not videos on my iPhone, quit Dropbox, restarted and plugged in again. DropBox reported all videos had already been downloaded, and all is good. I suppose I ought to take a bunch of photos and see what happens. I don't use my phone as long-term storage anyway, so it doesn't bother me that I had to delete all the photos, and if there were some that had not uploaded, too bad.

New batch of 11 photos does not seem to have caused a problem.

Of course, it would be nice to have this problem solved, but hey ...

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