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TaliiBee
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago
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Automatic Upload of Live Photos

I want my lives to automatically save on DropBox and then when I come to DropBox and download it to my apple products I can still see them as Lives.

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  • HOVNO's avatar
    HOVNO
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago

    Please save Live Photos as Live Photos not only static ones. It feels kind of stupid.

  • Starseed's avatar
    Starseed
    Helpful | Level 6
    3 years ago

    Yea Dropbox is a cash grab at this point behind everyone else.

  • abelincoln's avatar
    abelincoln
    New member | Level 2
    3 years ago

    Yeah, when I see other posts about how Dropbox can "backup" live photos and Dropbox people offer their "solutions", it is really disappointing.  "Saving a live photo" but not being able to view a live photo as it was intended is not a solution.   "Backing up" like that throws away a lot of the data in the image file.  

  • Starseed's avatar
    Starseed
    Helpful | Level 6
    3 years ago

    TaliiBee @Yea it’s really unfortunate, and frustrating to leave. Took a lot of time getting things organized right but it looks like Dropbox is really a cash grab at this point. Who know dropbox probably owned by a competitor or maybe they themselves have a competing product. In any case selling people a leading product then dropping development of said product when the competition is too fierce for their development team to compete seems to be the business model here. Anyone who has stock in this cloud service should also abandon ship before they loose their investment!

  • TaliiBee's avatar
    TaliiBee
    Helpful | Level 6
    3 years ago

    Starseed Honestly you make a great point. I’m super disappointed with drop box but the organization and lack of Live Photos has been irritating me beyond belief so I’m going to switch to a different cloud now. 

  • Starseed's avatar
    Starseed
    Helpful | Level 6
    3 years ago

    Hey everyone, it’s 2023 Amazon, google and Microsoft all support Live Photos. Dropbox wants the leader of cloud storage later Cloud storage is dead last in features and technology, functionality and ease-of-use. They have no intention on improving anything just keeping what’s there working. It’s just a big cash grab at this point save your money and get out while you can.

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    eclegg27
    Helpful | Level 7
    3 years ago

    I would really love to have my live photos saved. I feel like so much of my memories are being stripped away because of the lack of implementation.

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    3 years ago
    Status changed:
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    Closed - Not for right now
    Thank you for sharing your idea.
     
    We have looked into this, but it is not something we are actively working on at this time. 
     
    We regularly review these ideas, and we will keep you updated if this idea moves forward in the future.
  • Megan's avatar
    Megan
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    3 years ago

    Hi AskLuigi, I hope you're having an amazing day so far!

     

    I went ahead, and merged your idea into a similar one we have, just to make sure we keep everything neat and under the same thread.

     

    Feel free to upvote the idea too.

     

    I hope this helps!

  • AskLuigi's avatar
    AskLuigi
    Explorer | Level 3
    3 years ago
    Myself and many others would greatly appreciate adding support for uploading Live Photos to DropBox. There seem to be many forums discussing the lack of this feature, and this could bring many potential customers to using this service, as Dropbox has a lot that other cloud services don’t offer, except they’re missing this very basic functionality.