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Peter T.5's avatar
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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Weavre C.
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

Is this still true as of May 25, 2016? I want to delete photos from my phone, but don't want to lose my Dropbox copies! (I pay the $10/month level of extra Dropbox space, if that matters, and I have a Galaxy 7 Edge.)

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