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Mattress71
New member | Level 1
19 days ago

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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Mattress71
New member | Level 1

Thanks Jay, I can now see the photos on my web-based dropbox account. I can also see they are on my desktop app with either a tick next to them or a cloud. If I delete them off my phone now (to free up space) will I lose them?

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Walter
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15 days ago

Since they're already uploaded to your Dropbox account, you should be safe to delete them from your device Mattress71 

If you're not sure how it works, you can try it out with a sample file as a test! 

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