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vovalos
7 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Deleting pictures from automatic upload
So I'm trying to figure out what's the exact behaviour of camera upload when you delete files, and whether this behaviour can be modified. From what I can see: 1. If i delete picture on phone, it's...
- 7 years ago
vovalos wrote:
So if I take a picture I no longer need, I actually need to delete it twice... Is there any way to only delete pictures once and have them removed both from phone & dropbox?
Yes, you need to delete it twice. The purpose of Camera Uploads is only to upload your photos and videos. There is no way to sync deletions like that.
The Dropbox companioin app, Carousel, used to do this. It had a feature that could determine which photos you've already uploaded and remove them from your camera roll/gallery. Sadly, Dropbox discontinued the app long ago, and in fact have been moving away from alot of the photo-centric features that they once had.
Rich
Super User II
vovalos wrote:
So if I take a picture I no longer need, I actually need to delete it twice... Is there any way to only delete pictures once and have them removed both from phone & dropbox?
Yes, you need to delete it twice. The purpose of Camera Uploads is only to upload your photos and videos. There is no way to sync deletions like that.
The Dropbox companioin app, Carousel, used to do this. It had a feature that could determine which photos you've already uploaded and remove them from your camera roll/gallery. Sadly, Dropbox discontinued the app long ago, and in fact have been moving away from alot of the photo-centric features that they once had.
vovalos
7 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Thanks Rich.
The money is not in consumer business... thus the move away from photo centric features I guess.
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