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Adam110
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

Hiding picture data

Hi there. I'm new to drop box so please excuse any ignorance. I have basic Dropbox, how do I hide my photo info (camera, settings etc) when sending pics? Thank you.
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Rich
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Adam110 wrote:
I have basic Dropbox, how do I hide my photo info (camera, settings etc) when sending pics? Thank you.

That information is embedded within the file itself. Dropbox has no way to hide it. Find a utility that can strip the metadata (EXIF data) from your images before you upload them to Dropbox.

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dbacon
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

I understand that the exif data is embedded in the image, but isn't there a way to tell Dropbox not to display it?

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    Walter
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    2 years ago

    Hey dbacon, thanks for joining the discussion here.

     

    I'm afraid there's no way within Dropbox to remove or hide the exif data of (shared) files. 

     

    Let me know if you have any other questions. 

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