Is there a way to save a video from Dropbox to my iPhone's camera roll?

mrswle

Hi, 

i'd like to save a video from the dropbox app to my camera roll from my iphone x. 

These videos were made with an old camera, i saved them on a sd card and uploaded it to my dropbox. Now i want to save them on my iphone via the dropbox app. 

The preview in the app works very well, i can watch the video even when i change the suffix to .mod. 

But i cannot download it... (and no, i dont want to save it in my files, i'd like to have it in my camera roll like the other videos i took with the iphone). 

So my question is basically what can i do now and is there a way to save them as i want to? 

Any suggestions regarding the suffix or the video size? Or maybe direct transfer with itunes? 

I tried several apps but nothing worked, im a bit devastated and out of ideas...

 

ah and i always get the error message: this type of video cannot be saved on this device

 

Thank you in advance everybody!

And im sorry if there is already a thread about this, unfortunately I didnt find anything 

Walter

Hi @mrswle; welcome to our Community!

 

To directly cut to the chase, please note that you can export photos or videos to your device’s “Camera Roll” album while other files can be exported to applications that support their file types.

 

To export a photo or video to your device:

 

• Open the Dropbox app and open the photo or video that you would like to export
• Tap the ellipsis (..) on the top-right and select “Export”
• Tap “Save Image” (or “Save Video”) to save this file locally to your device

 

To export other files:

 

• Open the file you’d like to export in the Dropbox app
• Tap the ellipsis (..) on the top-right and select “Export”. You will now see two rows of apps.
• In the lower row, tap “Open In…” - this will show you a list of apps to export this file to. If you don’t see any apps indicated, you will need to download an app that supports this filetype.

Please note that exporting a file saves a copy of the file to another app and that exported files will not sync with your Dropbox account.

 

I hope this information helps and please let me know if you have any more questions.