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earthangel4peace
New member | Level 1
3 months ago

How to stop my camera photos from being backed up into Dropbox?

I have a desktop computer - HP - and in past I would put my camera  scan disk into side of computer and the photos would be downloaded to my computer in my PICTURES folder; now - for some reason they...
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earthangel4peace's avatar
earthangel4peace
New member | Level 1
3 months ago

How do I copy in one lump sum, all the photos that are on Dropbox; to move onto my computer? I now have the TAKE NO ACTION selected when I download photos in the future - but I still have the set of photos that dropped into Dropbox.

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    Nancy
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    3 months ago

    Hi from me too, earthangel4peace. You can open your local Dropbox folder > Camera uploads and press Ctrl A on your keyboard to select all files at once. 

    After all of your files have been selected, press Ctrl C (to copy) or Ctrl X (to move), go to the location you’d like to move them to and then press Ctrl V.

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