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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.

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Rich
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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.

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Prue C.
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

OK, thanks for that Rich. 

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