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James P.45's avatar
James P.45
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

Stuck "importing photos..."

My dropbox is set to auto import/upload my iphone photos, which it is doing. But it keeps telling me it's "importing photos..." and the menubar symbol is constantly the camera symbol that usually com...
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Daniel J.21's avatar
Daniel J.21
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

I downloaded 3.12.6 today ... rebooted both macbook and iPad ... and soft reset iPad just in case. 

whilst it DOES seem to be copying new photos into dropbox - the icon is still not changing and I'm not getting the completed notification I always used to get. 

annoyingly, I've been doing a lot of organising with photos.app (which is syncing changes to my devices via icloud) and have added some old photos which were previously synced with dropbox which I assume wont sync again ... which is just making things even more confusing.

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