Hi Ruxianwang,
Hm...🤔 Yes, almost (despite not exactly).
When Dropbox application performs automatic upload of photo, it don't sync it (or compress already saved Camera photo eventually) as you might think. Something else happens though. When you take a shoot, your camera application grab the raw picture and compress it. On other side, Dropbox application does the same!!! In other words, it doesn't read already compressed by Camera application photo, but compress it in parallel (independently). That's why both compressions can have different compression level, quality, etc. So despite both go from the same raw picture, at the end they are completely different files. If you want the same file, Dropbox doesn't do this for you. If the files compression is the same (for some of the photos) it's rather coincidence. To make sure the files are the same, you need to upload photo(s) by hand yourself using Dropbox application upload feature (or Dropbox website) - don't use automatic picture upload.
Hope this clarifies matter.
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... Is Dropbox compressing photos on the app like this ?
Hi
Hm...🤔 Yes, almost (despite not exactly).
When Dropbox application performs automatic upload of photo, it don't sync it (or compress already saved Camera photo eventually) as you might think. Something else happens though. When you take a shoot, your camera application grab the raw picture and compress it. On other side, Dropbox application does the same!!! In other words, it doesn't read already compressed by Camera application photo, but compress it in parallel (independently). That's why both compressions can have different compression level, quality, etc. So despite both go from the same raw picture, at the end they are completely different files. If you want the same file, Dropbox doesn't do this for you. If the files compression is the same (for some of the photos) it's rather coincidence. To make sure the files are the same, you need to upload photo(s) by hand yourself using Dropbox application upload feature (or Dropbox website) - don't use automatic picture upload.
Hope this clarifies matter.
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Ruxianwang wrote:
... I do upload photos by hand through the app but somehow it resize everything. I tried the website this morning and the size is the same. ...
No, this is impossible. You are in confusion. Files uploaded in such a way are not modified in any way.
Ruxianwang wrote:
... But damage has already been done.
Ah.. If you try upload by hand pictures, that before has been uploaded automatic by Dropbox application, the files are still not changed - they continue to be Dropbox encoded, not your Camera application encoded. Again, files uploaded by hand are not changed in any way (would been neither damaged nor improved - just the same). If you want to upload Camera files, just upload Camera files, not something else (i.e. reupload Dropbox files what as seems you're doing). 🙋
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Ruxianwang wrote:
...
I opened the website, uploaded the same photo and it is the same size 4.7M.
...
👍Ok... As seems you have found a way that works for you. 😉
PS: I just tried on my own to add a photo to Dropbox as you described and download the same picture direct from the phone:
As you can see both photos are absolutely the same one. The only difference is the folder they reside in. It's the same when Dropbox application is in use (non automatic upload - i.e. plus + button) and when Dropbox website is in use.
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