Set date for new photos only in Camera Uploads

[AttilaH]

 Hi, is there an option to set a new date starting that on my phone to be backed up? I wanna delete old photos from camera uploads, but dont want them to be syncronized once again. If i could re-set the starting that i could avoid that to be happened.

Thanks

[Rich]

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@AttilaH wrote:

 I wanna delete old photos from camera uploads, but dont want them to be syncronized once again.

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Camera Uploads won't upload a photo or video that it uploaded previously, even if you delete the files from Camera Uploads in your account.

The only way for it to re-upload previously uploaded files is to have Support reset your Camera Uploads.

[Tosca1924]

I have been backing up photos from my iphone through Dropbox for many years now, and last night, I upgraded the iPhone to iOS 18.  Today when I opened Dropbox on my iPhone, it started queueing hundreds of photos for backup even though I only had about a dozen new ones.  I looked in the My Account section, and where you can select "All Photos" or "New Photos Only" - under "New Photos Only", as a subscript, it read "Starting Sep 10, 2021".  So, it appears to be considering all of my photos taken in the last three years to be New Photos.  I do not appear to be able to change this date to avoid backing up 100G+ of photos and videos it has already backed up.  

You said in your prior answer "the only way for it to re-upload previously uploaded files is to have Support reset your Camera Uploads."  It appears to have somehow reset in the midst of the upgrade.  Do I need to have Dropbox support fix this for me, or can you think of another solution?

[Nancy]

@Tosca1924, have you tried disabling the camera uploads feature altogether and turning it on again? If you do this, do you see the correct date when uploading “New photos only”?

[Tosca1924 · Accepted solution]

I had tried that, yes. But this morning I tried switching it to "All photos" and then switching back to "New Photos only" and that set the date back to today's date. Thank you!