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How can I upload photos of my phone?
Storage on my phone is full. I want to save all my photos (10,000 or so) to dropbox and then delete them off my phone.
Normally when I open the dropbox app on my phone, it automatically uploads my ...
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Dropbox StaffCamera Uploads works by first copying files from your phone's photo library into a temporary cache just for the Dropbox app. Once a photo is uploaded, it is removed from the cache, but not removed from your phone's photo library.
The Dropbox app is reporting that there isn't enough room to perform camera uploads because it can't copy the images into the temporary cache.
You might try going into the iOS settings app > General > iPhone Storage, and seeing what you might be able to delete to free up space on your phone.
Once Dropbox has backed up your photos and they are visible in the Photos tab, you can choose what to do with the copies stored in the Apple Photos library.
So thankful for this explanation it's super helpful. I'm trying to do a ~250gb (30k photo) iCloud > Dropbox transfer using an iPhone as the Dropbox client. After 2k photos out of 30k Dropbox reported iPhone storage full. I think I'm running into issues like you mentioned with the cache filling up or maybe some iPhotos cache issue. Would a "Dropbox Settings > Delete Cache" force a purge of the cache or would I need to do a full reinstall? I think Dropbox iOS is either getting the wrong iOS Storage amount (50gb free) or iOS isn't correctly reporting that this cache has flooded the 50gb available space and is instead reporting 50gb free.
