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Remove photos from local Android device after adding them to Dropbox via camera uploads.

I wanted to use my dropbox account to be able to backup my files and remove them after a period of time from my phone, so files say older than a couple of months are only available online. And just keep the most recent ones in my android phone.

It would be nice also to do this for different folders.

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Nancy

Thanks for posting your idea on the forum, @chuzpax01!

Can you give me an example of a folder that you’d like to automatically add to Dropbox with camera uploads? If you've already created one, are you unable to see it among the albums of your camera uploads settings?

Do you also mean that you’d like the entire folder to be added to your “camera uploads” directory as a subfolder?

Let me know more details.

chuzpax01

>> Can you give me an example of a folder that you’d like to automatically add to Dropbox with camera uploads?

For example on my android, photos are stored somewhere like:

/internal storage/DCIM/Camera, and what today dropbox does is that it copies that over to "Camera Uploads" folder (in dropbox cloud).

It would be nice that the android client would have a setting that allows the user to say, well once it has uploaded it to dropbox (and maybe after say a month or 2) remove it from my local storage, in this case from /internal storage/DCIM/Camera. So those photos live now only online in dropbox, and frees up space on my phone for newer photos, apps, etc.

>> Do you also mean that you’d like the entire folder to be added to your “camera uploads” directory as a subfolder?

I think this might be nice to have, but less important than allow me to free up the space on my phone having the files only on dropbox cloud.

Nancy

Thanks for further clarifying, @chuzpax01! I’ve made sure our team can see all of your comments and feedback here.

If you need something else moving forward, feel free to ping me.