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flyhen
Explorer | Level 3
2 months ago

How can I only upload the photos from my phone and not my computer to Dropbox?

Hello All,   I've noticed that (for awhile now) after I enabled the "Turn on camera uploads" on my iphone, whenever I had the iOS Dropbox App open, it not only uploaded all the photos in the ipho...
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Rich
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flyhen wrote:

... when i open the dropbox app in my iphone, it will look for any new photos to upload/back in my camera roll, but not only that, it will also do the same for my laptop

Dropbox doesn't do that. The mobile app can only upload photos and videos that are in the albums on your iPhone. It can't upload photos or videos from your Mac.

 

One thought, though, and I'm not a Mac user so correct me if I'm wrong, please. Does iCloud sync albums across devices? If so, could it be that iCloud is syncing the photos on your Mac to an album on your iPhone, and Dropbox is uploading the content of that album?

 

Mark, you're a Mac guy. Does that sound right?

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flyhen
Explorer | Level 3
2 months ago

This has nothing to do with icloud sync, 1. I don't have enough space for that 2. I didn't enable anything, so that's never the case.

I just checked now, when I open the dropbox app on iphone, it was looking for new photos to backup, and interestingly, this time, it was about to backup my new photos in the "Download" folder in Mac (also a symlink folder with dropbox ).

The plot thickens.

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    Jay
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    2 months ago

    Hi flyhen, it sounds like you've enabled the Dropbox Backup feature on the Mac, is that correct? This is why files from those folders are appearing in Dropbox. 

     

    Which folders did you select on your phone for the camera upload feature, since it should be possible to select more than just the camera roll?

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      flyhen
      Explorer | Level 3
      2 months ago

      I checked, but I did not enable the backup feature on the desktop app.

       

       

      • Jay's avatar
        Jay
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        2 months ago

        Since it says 'Manage backups', it means that something is enabled there, could you click that to see if Dropbox Backup is enabled for that device?

         

        If you tap 'All photos' on the iPhone, what options do you get?

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