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Peter T.5
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

If I delete photos from my camera folder on my phone will they stay in Dropfox Camera Uploads folder?

Hi, I want to delete photos from my phone to get storage space back. If these have already been synced and in the camera uploads folder in my dropbox they would not get deleted by deleting them on...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    10 years ago

    If you delete photos from your phone's camera roll, gallery, etc., they will not be deleted from from your Dropbox account. If you delete them from the Dropbox app on your phone, they WILL be deleted from Dropbox, but will stay in your phone's camera roll.

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danj
New member | Level 2
I am using the official dropbox app, and my photos pop back into my camera roll after I delete them.
Rich's avatar
Rich
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9 years ago

danj,

It won't be Dropbox doing that. It's simply not programmed to do that. The only way Dropbox would add a photo back is if you open the photo in the Dropbox app and choose to save it back to your phone.

If your photos reappear in your camera roll after you delete them, then it's likely another process that is doing it.

 

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