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How can I add photos to an album?
After I upload photos from my iphone they are found in the camera upload file in my drop box. How do I move them from the camera upload folder into one of my photo albums. When I do that, do I dele...
- Its only using the storage once :)
The Photos tab and Albums tabs are just web pages created from your files.
Vivian
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi there,
Thanks for reaching out to us!
Any photos located in the Camera or Screenshots folders of your device´s photo app will upload to your Dropbox. Once they´re uploaded you will find them in your Photos tab. From here, you have the option to add them to an Album of your choice. To do so, please follow below steps:
- Sign in to your dropbox.com.
- Click on Photos tab on the left.
- Select the photo.
- Right click and choose ´Add to album´.
Please note, if you delete the photo from the Photos tab the image will be deleted in your Album. If however, you remove it from the Album it will not delete in the Photos tab.
Hope this clarifies! Let us know if you need anything else. :)
Thanks,
Vivian
OK thanks. So my last question,(probably not), is this. I see the photos are in the camera upload file folder, under the files tab. The same photos are then in the photos folder. If I then add one of those same photos to an album, is that one photo using three times the storage space? (camera upload, photos, then specific album) Do I need to delete all the photos in the camera upload file folder or does deleting them there also delete them from the photo folder.
- Mark
Super User II
Its only using the storage once :)
The Photos tab and Albums tabs are just web pages created from your files."Once they´re uploaded you will find them in your Photos tab."
I don't understand that reply from Dropbox.
on my iPhone and iPad they are uploaded to \Camera Uploads not \Photos.
Terry, UK
- Terry,
You are correct. On a mobile device the camera uploads is where the pics can be found at. However on a PC at www.dropbox.com there are other options. For example, uploaded pics are still found in the camera uploads file on the PC but in addition to the camera uploads folder, they automatically go to another folder called photos. Under the photos folder you can then make customized albums. That is sort of why my questions were what they were. Since the pics are technically in three places (camera uploads, photos album, then a specific named album) I wanted to make sure I wasn't using three times the storage space for the same pic that is technically in three different locations. For whatever reason I guess on our mobile devices we don't see the photos album or the other albums that we create, but on the PC you do. Hope this make sense.
- Arame sene
