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How can I only upload the photos from my phone and not my computer to Dropbox?
Hello All,
I've noticed that (for awhile now) after I enabled the "Turn on camera uploads" on my iphone, whenever I had the iOS Dropbox App open, it not only uploaded all the photos in the ipho...
Mark
Super User II
Super User IISorry I'm confused, where is the symlink on the iPhone or is it on the Mac? Note that Dropbox doesn't support or follow symlinks.
However, Dropbox does now upload photos from the photo albums on the mobile device. So its possible it is pulling them from that. You can change it in the 'Back Up...' menu
Hi, sorry for the late reply, i was travelling.
1. the symlink probably has nothing to do with mobile devices as it is a symlink between my laptop and dropbox itself.
2. don't mean to complicate things, but when i open the dropbox app in my iphone, it will look for any new photos to upload/back in my camera roll, but not only that, it will also do the same for my laptop (photos in the symlink folders).
All I want is the iphone to be backed up, not the new photos in my laptop.
- Rich
flyhen wrote:
... when i open the dropbox app in my iphone, it will look for any new photos to upload/back in my camera roll, but not only that, it will also do the same for my laptop
Dropbox doesn't do that. The mobile app can only upload photos and videos that are in the albums on your iPhone. It can't upload photos or videos from your Mac.
One thought, though, and I'm not a Mac user so correct me if I'm wrong, please. Does iCloud sync albums across devices? If so, could it be that iCloud is syncing the photos on your Mac to an album on your iPhone, and Dropbox is uploading the content of that album?
Mark, you're a Mac guy. Does that sound right?
This has nothing to do with icloud sync, 1. I don't have enough space for that 2. I didn't enable anything, so that's never the case.
I just checked now, when I open the dropbox app on iphone, it was looking for new photos to backup, and interestingly, this time, it was about to backup my new photos in the "Download" folder in Mac (also a symlink folder with dropbox ).
The plot thickens.- Jay
Dropbox Staff
Hi flyhen, it sounds like you've enabled the Dropbox Backup feature on the Mac, is that correct? This is why files from those folders are appearing in Dropbox.
Which folders did you select on your phone for the camera upload feature, since it should be possible to select more than just the camera roll?
