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JacobLee
11 months agoExplorer | Level 4
Camera Uploads backup HEIC to JPG conversion
I want to start backing up my iPhone photos to the Camera Uploads feature. I have 2 questions: In the upload settings you can choose HEIC or JPG setting for the files. As iPhone photos are all d...
JacobLee
Explorer | Level 4
Thanks for your info on this. From experience I realise JPG's can have different levels of compression so I was wondering how heavily compressed the original HEIC files are by Dropbox's converter. It doesn't let you adjust it in the settings
Cynthiaa
11 months agoNew member | Level 2
Good question. What about transferring them yourself, is that too much work? I have rarely used their camera upload, so I was assuming that you were creating a folder yourself and storing the photos there. In that case, of course, there is no compression. I think a Dropbox tech has to weigh in on this. But, again, if the photos are important, I would store them in a file structure you create yourself.
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