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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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eyalnow's avatar
eyalnow
Helpful | Level 5
10 years ago

Same problem.

stuck at "15 minutes" for half hour.

No new photos or videos are imported.

Some files are added to [dropbox cache] folder.

I need to kill the app and re-launch it.

 

dropbox help ?

Max K.2's avatar
Max K.2
New member | Level 2
10 years ago

Still the same problem, stuck at "About 10 minutes left", photos and videos are in .dropbox.cache

Stuck problem is still reprodused in Dropbox v13.4.21 under macOS Sierra 10.12.1

Hey Dropbox team, are you doing anything here? WTF?

  • jimzucker's avatar
    jimzucker
    New member | Level 2
    10 years ago

    Same problem!

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