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Stephen C.26
Helpful | Level 6
6 years ago

Is it possible to upload ALL images to Camera Uploads?

Camera Uploads obviously uploads images from the camera roll. Only. Is it possible to upload all photos on my phone to Camera Uploads? Including ones downloaded or edited in an app?
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  • Stephen C.26's avatar
    Stephen C.26
    6 years ago

    Answer: NO. Come on Dropbox. :unamused:

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Stephen C.26
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Unfortunately that is not what is happening. All I get is the contents of the "Camera" folder inside "DCIM". Other photos like everything in the "Pictures" folder, WhatsApp, Photoshop Express, Screenshots, Facebook, Instagram, etc don't upload to Camera Uploads at all. (They are all inside the "Photos" app though, and backed up to photos.google.com). And I can't find any setting to enable this. This is an Android phone ver 9

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Daphne
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6 years ago
 
Thanks for that clarification there! I looked into this on a few different OS devices and what I mentioned above seems to apply for iOS but not so much for Android devices. 
 
For an Android device, to get those other images to upload with automatic camera uploads, you can select the images within the other albums and choose to “move to folder” or “copy to folder” and choose the Camera roll.
 
This would allow them to be automatically uploaded, otherwise I can suggest uploading the images manually from other albums into the Dropbox app.
 
Hope this helps to clarify the matter - Cheers!
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    Stephen C.26
    Helpful | Level 6
    6 years ago

    Thanks but that rather defeats the whole purpose of having Dropbox update Camera Uploads automatically. NOT your problem though thanks for trying to help.

    But Dropbox… wutt???!

    • Stephen C.26's avatar
      Stephen C.26
      Helpful | Level 6
      6 years ago

      Answer: NO. Come on Dropbox. :unamused:

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        Daphne
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        6 years ago
         
        I’m glad that I could at least help to clear up the situation, it’s unfortunate that the work around I suggested wasn’t feasible for you. Perhaps there may be some suggestions by others on how you could possibly set the Camera roll as a default location to save all images perhaps, so that they can be automatically uploaded by camera uploads?
         
        Your thread will remain open in case any other users have some other suggestions on how to achieve your goal. In the meantime I’ll pass along your interest in seeing this (uploading all images from "Photos") as a feature to our dev team.
         
        Have a great day - Cheers!

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