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akvictor84
4 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Stuck scanning photo library
Dropbox has been stuck “scanning your photo library” the last several times I’ve tried to backup my photos. Has anyone else had this happen to them?
- 4 years agoHi @akvictor84, thanks for messaging today!
If you're not on a Dropbox Basic plan with more than 3 devices connected, could you try uninstalling the app, rebooting the device, and re-installing it to see if this helps?
Keep me updated with any progress!
PawelR
4 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Why isnt this fixed yet at the end of September? I am on ios 15 and have 1 month old iphone 12 pro max with 256gb capacity and 110gb free dropbox version 252.2 been stuck at scanning photo library for a whole day now. no upload activity on my phone from dropbox.
- geoffmacd4 years agoDropbox Engineer
Can you try turning off "new photos only" from the camera upload settings. Please ensure you are backing up "all photos".
Thanks.
- PawelR4 years agoExplorer | Level 3
I'm not turning that off because I am not going to deal with duplicates that dropbox likes to shove in there regularly. Your app doesn't finish uploading everything that is NEW since turning on camera uploads the first time when it should. Fix that first!
I reinstalled the app today and manually selected 2 days of photos and videos. It didn't upload them! AND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it does not upload in the background when I have all settings enabled for that in ios. Your app no longer has a setting to upload in the background when it did in the past.
- PawelR4 years agoExplorer | Level 3
What the hell, I turned on all photo uploads, now its stuck at original problem scanning your photo library. This app is completely useless. Even plugging the phone to the computer and uploading photos and videos that way through dropbox does not work. How many times am i going to uninstall and reinstall this crap before it works?
- SOram4 years agoNew member | Level 2
Mine just locked up again and I read this thread. Nothing helped!
But when I was in Account settings on the iPhone I just saw a 'Clear Cache' button and decided to click it for kicks and giggles. Lo and behold it started uploading. Only did about 5 photos before stopping again 😞 Clearing the cache again restarted it.........
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