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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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Paul H.'s avatar
Paul H.
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

FYI I have formally logged this issue with Dropbox support who has since confirmed it as a known issue they are investigating. They had me install a new version of the client but the problem remained. So no solution yet beyond restarting the app, but it is known and the support agent promised to update me though he could not give any schedule. 

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