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FResco1945
Helpful | Level 6
19 days ago

I see duplicate images in a shared folder.

Greetings, I'll explain the problem briefly: I shared a folder containing images with a person, everything is fine, the folder is regularly viewed on the smartphone however, every thumbnail is dupl...
  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    18 days ago

    Image helps, thank you!

     

    Basically that means they have those images saved twice on their device - once in your shared folder and once somewhere else. Dropbox doesn't differentiate between that so it will show everything up on the Photos tab even if its duplicate or triplicate. 

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