Deleting Dropbox Photos

[Puppy72]

Hi. First time poster, so I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I really need help!

I synced my phone and laptop to Dropbox because I have about 400 photos on my laptop that I'd like on my phone without having to download. This worked fine and the photos appeared in my phone Gallery. When I take a photo on my phone I DO want it to automatically upload to Dropbox because I like having them backed up. However, when I take a photo or screenshot it gets transferred to a file called 'Camera Uploads' (which is part of Dropbox) and I can't delete the photos.

I went to the laptop and deleted the file from Dropbox and also re-named and moved around a few folders, but it's been a day and this change hasn't shown up in my Gallery? I want to keep all the other Dropbox photos on my phone but would like to delete this individual folder or photos from my Gallery.

Someone suggested I go settings>accounts>Dropbox to change the settings, but when I do it just comes up with my account name and the only option is 'Remove account'. There's also an option of 'sync now' but it's not available for me to select.

Help?

 

[Gekko]

when you take a photo or screenshot - it gets pushed to the local phone Gallery - then (via Camera Upload) it gets pushed to the Dropbox Folder. so in other words - TWO separate files are created. so if you want to delete a photo/screenshot you must delete it from both locations - local Gallery and the Dropbox folder. they are independent.

 

[shirley Fischer]

I can't delete individual photos from any gallery drop-box albums. As soon as I sent them to DB they were no longer accessible in gallery except as a DB album. The album has the dropbox "blue box" in the corner but..it is not visible on my pc or phone drop-box account. All I could do was send the photos I wanted deleted to drop-box from my phone and delete them. BUT they were still in the drop-box pic folder in my galaxy note 3!! I could only get rid of them by DUMPING all of the pictures in that folder... 250 of them!!! I'm going to find a different app.. and DROP dropbox asap!
DO NOT USE THIS APP!!!!!!!!!

 

[bodum02]

I can't delete individual photos from any gallery drop-box albums. As soon as I sent them to DB they were no longer accessible in gallery except as a DB album. The album has the dropbox "blue box" in the corner but..it is not visible on my pc or phone drop-box account. All I could do was send the photos I wanted deleted to drop-box from my phone and delete them. BUT they were still in the drop-box pic folder in my galaxy note 3!! I could only get rid of them by DUMPING all of the pictures in that folder... 250 of them!!! I'm going to find a different app.. and DROP dropbox asap!
DO NOT USE THIS APP!!!!!!!!!

I'm not very techy, but I can say I love Dropbox (think about sd card corruption issues) so I know I need to delete any pics from DB AND any gallery on any devices where I use DB. To me is worth the extra step or two so I can be sure my pics are safely stored as soon as they are taken and wifi is available.

 

[Thomas Mozzillo]

I deleted the photos from the gallery and when i try to delete from dropbox I get a message "unsupported file" and it doesn't delete the photo

 

[Rocky10946]

So, where is 'local gallery'---- I want to delete photos on my Android that have the "drop box' blue ring .
I can't rid of those photos. NOWHERE is the word delete on this Android. The preceding last post instruction said
delete the photos in the "local gallery' I tried that. NO delete.
Rocky.

 

[Kd5nay]

So, where is 'local gallery'---- I want to delete photos on my Android that have the "drop box' blue ring .
I can't rid of those photos. NOWHERE is the word delete on this Android. The preceding last post instruction said
delete the photos in the "local gallery' I tried that. NO delete.
Rocky.

Rocky,
I had luck by going to settings -> cloud -> then under Dropbox make sure "pictures" is turned off. Hope it helps.

Andrew