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Silisia R.
11 years agoNew member | Level 1
does Dropbox compressed photo files???
I'm sending full resolution photo files to clients instead of burning them on a disc, but I want to make sure they are the full resolution. I had a client that had pictures made at Walgreens, and the...
- 8 years ago
I uploaded a 107.5MB TIFF file to Dropbox using a desktop browser, then downloaded the file. I then compared the file in my download folder to the source file.
Both were exact matches down to the byte: 107,525,5436 bytes.
I then checked for JPG. Also an exact match 9,177,764 bytes.
Then I checked CR2 files (Cannon's proprietary file extension)
Drumroll...both files were 23,921,835 bytes.
If you are using some mobile app to upload your photos...switch to desktop if you care about such things, but blame the right party.
Last I checked, I do not work for Dropbox, nor do I own any stock. If you call someone a liar, you better be able to back it up at least as well as dropbox backs up your files.
Robert M.
10 years agoNew member | Level 1
Dropbox, in our line of business we take a ridiculous amount of pictures and store/share them via dropbox. Our main concern is the amount of disk space that is consumed by our picture files. Once we've completed our report and used the original higher quality pictures, we generally try to compress the picture files to conserve disk space. However, as the phone manufactures continue to push higher resolution capabilities with each new phone release, the lower resolution/smaller picture files have been phased out. In order to eliminate the added step of compressing our picture files before uploading to dropbox, is there an option/setting within dropbox that will compress picture files/folders for us? Thanks!
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