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Hipnie
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3 years ago

Syncing all Gallery-folders to 'Camera Uploads'

Hi,   On my Android smartphone I'd like to backup the folders of my gallery to Dropbox. This works fine, by using the Dropbox-app on my smarthpone.  On my smartphone I've created dozens of fold...
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Rich's avatar
Rich
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3 years ago
Hipnie wrote:

Does anyone know what I can do to synch the folders to my Dropbox-account as well?

The Camera Uploads feature will not sync the folders; only the photos and videos within them. If you want to upload files into folders, you'll need to do it manually by using the Dropbox app to first create a folder and then upload files into that folder.

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Hipnie
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

Thank for your quick respond.

 

Is there no way to synch the folder I'm making?

Because I'm creating new folders every week. For every event I've got a new folder.

 

After organising all my 5.000 images on my phone I prefer not to do the same thing on my Dropbox again.

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    Rich
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    3 years ago
    Hipnie wrote:

    Is there no way to synch the folder I'm making?

    No, there isn't.

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