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Can I delete photos from my phone after uploading them without deleting them from Dropbox too?
Here's the essence of the problem: I have DropBox Pro installed on an iPhone 5s, iPad Air, MacBook Pro and Windows desktop computer. I do NOT want to clog up my iPhone, iPad and MacBook with files fr...
- No there isnt Frankie, as unfortunately has been said in this thread.
Rich
Super User II
Super User IIThus If you take a 100 MB movie, you end up using 200MB of space on the iPhone, 100MB for the Photo Gallery, and 100MB in the Dropbox App.
Not true. The Dropbox app on mobile devices does not store files like the regular computer clients do. Yes, it may have a copy of the files for a short time, but this is just a cache. The only files stored permanently on mobile devices are those marked as available offline. Otherwise any files stored locally by the Dropbox app are periodically deleted automatically.
If deleted from the DropBox app later by accident, it also removes it from all synced folders.
The mobile apps show you a list of what is in your entire account; not what is on the device. Delete a file within the app and you're deleting it from your account, everywhere.
Deleting the photo from your Photo Gallery (after it has been uploaded of course) will not delete the copy that was uploaded to Dropbox. The Carousel app (discontinued) had a nice feature that would purge any photos from the gallery that had already been uploaded to Dropbox. It's likely that will be incorporated into the Dropbox client at some point.
The Carousel app (discontinued) had a nice feature that would purge any photos from the gallery that had already been uploaded to Dropbox. It's likely that will be incorporated into the Dropbox client at some point.
PLEASE! this would be such a sensible idea
Why can't you guys just add a feature to delete all photos that were just uploaded? It's really not that hard...
- I fear it might be hard, because the photos are owned by the camera app. In my understanding, the camera app can hand over photos to dropbox, but dropbox cannot access them directly. The camera app has to delete the photos after sharing with dropbox.
I would really like this feature - for the phone to auto-clear-down. There is an app which does this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sweesoft.sweethome&hl=en_GB
It copies your photos onto a network location, then will clear them off your phone after a configurable amount of time. This could even be used with dropbox, if you set up a location on your home network to auto-upload to dropbox.
But it would be a lot better if it was handled natively by the dropbox app.
Sorry, I'm not sure that this should be really handled by the Dropbox app. It would be much more natural that the Camera app deletes the Photos after they were sent - to whatever cloud or other app. Dropbox is about syncing files, and it is the best in this discipline. Any feature beyond that is a loss of focus, and every feature is a potential bug. Dropbox should not strive to solve other apps shortcomings. My opinion.
