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TaliiBee
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago
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Investigating

Automatic Upload of Live Photos

I want my lives to automatically save on DropBox and then when I come to DropBox and download it to my apple products I can still see them as Lives.

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    TaliiBee
    Helpful | Level 6

    Starseed Honestly you make a great point. I’m super disappointed with drop box but the organization and lack of Live Photos has been irritating me beyond belief so I’m going to switch to a different cloud now. 

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    Starseed
    Helpful | Level 6

    TaliiBee @Yea it’s really unfortunate, and frustrating to leave. Took a lot of time getting things organized right but it looks like Dropbox is really a cash grab at this point. Who know dropbox probably owned by a competitor or maybe they themselves have a competing product. In any case selling people a leading product then dropping development of said product when the competition is too fierce for their development team to compete seems to be the business model here. Anyone who has stock in this cloud service should also abandon ship before they loose their investment!

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    abelincoln
    New member | Level 2

    Yeah, when I see other posts about how Dropbox can "backup" live photos and Dropbox people offer their "solutions", it is really disappointing.  "Saving a live photo" but not being able to view a live photo as it was intended is not a solution.   "Backing up" like that throws away a lot of the data in the image file.  

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    Starseed
    Helpful | Level 6

    Yea Dropbox is a cash grab at this point behind everyone else.

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    HOVNO
    New member | Level 2

    Please save Live Photos as Live Photos not only static ones. It feels kind of stupid.

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    Nancy
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    Hi everyone! 

     

    The Dropbox team is currently reviewing this idea. We will share any updates with you as soon as possible.