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How. Can I control the photos that Dropbox offers when I ask to upload on my phone. It has picked utterly randomly, repeated, lost any chronology and is showing deleted files. What is worse is that o...
Thanks for the info, currently, it isn't possible to specify which folder you want to upload from, as the mobile app detects all images on your device.
As a workaround, you could try uploading via the Android file file system by choosing the images you want, and then using the send/share button on your OS choose the option 'Add to Dropbox'.
Hi Hannah. The issue on the phone is selecting which photo to upload. I have opened the app and pressed upload button. The screen then opens offering pics to choose from it the choices made of what to offer that is the huge problem. I don't know what use a screenshot will be, they look like viable photos unless you know which have been deleted, which are unwanted intrusions from WhatsApp, and have a rough idea of the dates they were taken... I presume there was a reason for this random ordering, but I have to scroll through screens of rubbish before finding one photo I hoped to upload. And it turns out to be a thumbnail ( not that I have made any) any completely useless .
Laptop - I was hoping to get the photos to share from my Google photos but the only option offered is internally saved files from my hard drive.
Ps. Have how to turn off stupid stickers but only after been given a talkative badge. Talk about inappropriate!
Laptop - I was hoping to get the photos to share from my Google photos but the only option offered is internally saved files from my hard drive.
Ps. Have how to turn off stupid stickers but only after been given a talkative badge. Talk about inappropriate!
Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHi Franb1, has the behavior changed from you used to have in the Android app? Were you able to previously select which albums on your phone you wanted to upload from?
- Not used previously on phone. His is the only app I have found that behaves in this way . Instrgram has followed Dropbox's lead in the "gallery" selection but also allows me bypass it to pick from folders in the phone such as camera, Google photos, downloads etc.
- Jay
Thanks for the info, currently, it isn't possible to specify which folder you want to upload from, as the mobile app detects all images on your device.
As a workaround, you could try uploading via the Android file file system by choosing the images you want, and then using the send/share button on your OS choose the option 'Add to Dropbox'.
- Thank you, as a work around that is direct and useful! Just tried it out. I could have coped with the other if it been honestly a take from my phone's files. Why did prioritise other people's WhatsApps, random profile picture, multiple repetitions over photos I have taken and then muddle them up in a chaotic mess? Who ever set that up as a good thing was sadly mistaken.
But thank you for the response , at least I can use the system now - Jay
No worries, glad to have helped out a little!
- I see this has been accepted as a solution. What we arrived at was an evasion of the problem. It still remains that what has happened renders a major part of your product US. The cross contamination with the Instagram and now Facebook feeds is more than a headache, it has cost a week's worth of preparation taking photos ready and lined up to post, loss of organisation in the files and more. I sincerely regret going anywhere near Dropbox. This not solved. No one has explained why this happened or how to undo the damage done, the time wasted, and the carnage arising from it I can see having a major impact over the next weeks, possibly months, may be further. Just who the hell thinks Instagram THUMBNAILS are what anyone would sign up to save?
