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How can I force the mobile app to upload photos?
When I first used Dropbox a few years ago, as soon as I took a photo on my androad phone the photo would be uploaded to my dropbox and synced to my PC. Nowadays I can take a picture on my android in...
Jay
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox Staff
The issue is that Dropbox arbitrarily doesn't do camera uploads for hours, days, possibly ever. The best response from Dropbox is to fix their software so it does. The next best response is to inform customers that they can trigger an upload by opening the Dropbox app on the phone and tap the Photos tab. The lousy support response is to ask a bunch of stupid questions and then tell them how to manually upload photos.
"opening the Dropbox app on the phone and tap the Photos tab"
This isn't working for me. rebooted the phone and still nothing. I'm able to manually upload stuff, but I want to be able to force the automatic upload. Because if I manually uploaded them, whenever the stupid app decides to do the auto upload it will create a second copy of the file.
Why can't I just force it to trigger the manual upload? I really only use Dropbox for camera backup, but if it can't do this anymore I guess it might be time to look elsewhere.- Jay
Hi seamusvibe, have you tried disabling and re-enabling the camera upload feature to see if this helps?
- Thanks Jay. Yes. But I have to turn off uploads and turn back on uploads every time I want to upload.
