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Prue C.'s avatar
Prue C.
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

iPhone photo import - how do I import the favourites and album information?

Hello, I have set up my iphone photos to sync to my Dropbox. All good, but I can see now that they are all unsorted - my favourites and albums have not come through with the import. Is there a way to...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    2 years ago
    Prue C. wrote:

    All good, but I can see now that they are all unsorted - my favourites and albums have not come through with the import. Is there a way to do this?

    Dropbox doesn't have albums. They were removed years ago. You can just create separate folders for each group of photos you want to store together.

Rich's avatar
Rich
Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
2 years ago
Prue C. wrote:

All good, but I can see now that they are all unsorted - my favourites and albums have not come through with the import. Is there a way to do this?

Dropbox doesn't have albums. They were removed years ago. You can just create separate folders for each group of photos you want to store together.

  • Prue C.'s avatar
    Prue C.
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago

    OK, thanks for that Rich. 

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