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Will my photos get uploaded again if I move them?
I have camera upload turned on and phone pics automatically go to the Camera uploads folder.
If I move them from that folder, into an album or sub-folder, will the uploading process upload them again to the camera uploads folder?
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My photos from my phone automatically upload into Camera Uploads, which is great. But now I want to move those into Dropbox albums. Can anyone assist?
My dropbox is too full of my camera uploads! To restore dropbox space I have disabled the camera upload but I now want to move the 3500 pictures currently in camera uploads to an external hard drive. All of these pics were made from iphone and all of those pics are saved in icloud. How can I move them all?
I am very frustrated with the app on a new galaxy s7 active. I maintain 5000 pics on my phones ex sd drive in various folders. Previously the s3 and s5 im sure only uploaded the camera folder. To get the s7 to sync properly im going to have a lot of redundancies and items i have previously deleted.
Marie I need clarification. You wrote this a while ago.
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Hi Vicki!
I'll be happy to explain things here.
Anything you delete from a folder that is synced with Dropbox will be deleted from your account.
However, if you copy the content of your Camera Upload folder to another folder and you then delete content from the Camera Uploads folder, that won't affect the files from the original folder.
I hope that helps and let me know if there's anything else I can do for you!
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Option 1
So the questions is... Is this the right process?
1. Upload photos to "camera upload" folder
2. After that folder has more data than you would like on your computer hard drive. then Create "new folder" and move all images to that "new folder".
3. Now that photos have been moved from that the "camera upload" folder to the "New Folder" then unsync the "new folder"
4. All photos will now be stored in the new folder on the cloud and not on your hard drive.
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Option 2
So the questions is... Is this the right process?
1. Upload photos to "camera upload" folder
2. After that folder has more data than you would like on your computer hard drive. then rename the "camera upload" folder to any name you like. and a new camera upload folder will be created in its place.
3. Now unsync the "new folder" that you created.
4. All photos will now be stored in the new folder on the cloud and not on your hard drive.
5. repeat this process as much as you like.