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Removal of duplicate photos in my dropbox photo library
I somehow uploaded several hundred photos from my iphone to dropbox. Not sure how I did it, but now I see a lot of duplicate photos in dropbox (carousel).
It's early December 2016 and this is still happening. I took 5 videos on 12/1 and 12/2. On 12/4 at 5:36pm, something caused copies of these 5 videos to be uploaded to Dropbox in reverse order. That's 317mb of extra data.
These are undetectable by duplicate file checking software, because they are changed in some small way -- the file size is slightly larger (by 76 bytes!):
This started happening when I got a new Samsung S7 a few months ago. Something on the phone (that was not on my last phone) is changing these files, and finding what is doing it is the best way to fix this. I looked at my Google Photos and there is nothing there. I can't find any Samsung Cloud or Sync enabled on my phone. What other things might be responsible?
Dropbox is just doing what it's supposed to, so on one hand it's not to blame, but as long as it keeps happening they're going to have an increasing number of unhappy users, so it's in their interest to help find the culprit.
I think someone has found the responsible app. There is a Samsung "feature" that creates "events" out of your photos and possibly videos... Without being turned on and without informing you that it's doing this. (Maybe the next thing they can "give" us without asking is something to take all of our emails and texts and photos on a given day, and combine them into little stories! Wouldn't that be swell!) Anyway, go to Gallery and find Events (in a little pull-down menu), and turn off Auto-Create Events. Thanks to rin for finding this!
- I've been monitoring this thread as I have similar issues. But - like the original poster - I am using an iPhone and iPad. Not a Samsung device.
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Terry, East Grinstead, UKI got iPhone and camera upload two folders with same pictures. The only difference is Camera upload has difference file names (data and time) whereas iPhone folders has the same name what I see in my Phone IMG...
Can't sort out this issue, thousands of images and videos in dulicate. If I stop camera upload then iPhone folders also becomes blank.
