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Mobile: Exporting: "Save to Camera Roll"-option not available
Hi!
I use dropbox to sync up my files from my computer to my mobile devices (iphone and iPad). When I tried this morning to save my files to my phone, I discovered that the "Export"-button was missing and had been replaced by a share button (profile with a plus sign next to it). So my question is: How do I download my files (images in this case) to my camera roll on my phone?
Tap the three dots in the upper right corner of the screen. Tap Share via... and then Save Image.
- Rich
Super User II
Tap the three dots in the upper right corner of the screen. Tap Share via... and then Save Image.
Thanks so much Rich! Thought I was the only one facing this issue but apparently not ... This is indeed more troublesome, but at least I'm thankful that this function is not disabled entirely.
I have photos in Dropbox I'd like to put in my S6 Gallery.
I have finally found a solution after searching the web and coming up empty. I have the Galaxy S7 edge and needed a couple of pics in my gallery from Dropbox. It may seem a bit complicated but with a bit of practice becomes easier to do.
First open Dropbox on your pc and find the pics you want to move. Copy and paste these pics to your desktop. (Don't just move them or they'll only be on your desktop and not in Dropbox anymore.) Next, connect your phone via USB to your pc, click to allow your pc to talk to your phone, (a little pop up window on your phone). Open the files on your phone and find where your pics are stored (device or sd card) and the folder is usually called DCIM. Then select all the pics on your desktop and drag and drop them to the folder in your phone. Disconnect the USB from your pc and you're finished.
When you open the gallery app (or wherever you stored the pics) all those Dropbox pics will be there.
THANK YOU SO MUCH for mentioning the DCIM folder.
Even easier than this method to circumvent having to connect your phone:
1. Save all your photos to your computer's Dropbox folder.
2. Open Dropbox mobile app on your phone.
3. Select your photos, then "Save to Device" and navigate to your phone's DCIM folder, saving them there.
4. Now all the photos will appear naturally in Android's Gallery.
Piece of cake. This is particularly useful if you're trying to upload photos to Instagram, as now they will show up in the app.
This has saved me SO much headache in trying to upload multiple photos I've edited in Lightroom to Instagram without using third-party apps that violate their TOS.
- In your Dropbox app, you may browse to where your photos are. For example go to your Camera Uploads folder; the default place photos go to if you use the Dropbox Photo Upload feature.
- Next, you will need to long press on a photo to select one.
- You may then tap subsequent photos, or select all using the "double ticks" icon.
- Once done, you may press 3 dots icon, and then tap "Save to Device"
- You may then choose where to store the photos, then tap "Export"
Note that it may not be possible to store directly to the SD card in the above steps, you may need to use your File Manager on your phone to move it over to your SD card.
There are of course 3rd party syncing apps that actually sync Dropbox folders and your media to your SD card.
If you do a search, you may be able to find some useful ones.
@Rich R. Really bad UX here..
I actually had to look up how to save my image in iOS today after the update. THAT MEANS THE UX UPDATE WAS A FAIL. (Thanks to the person who posted the answer)
Also, there is a difference in 'Share via' vs. just 'Share' option you get in the folder view. 'Share' doesn't bring up the iOS menu to save the image... Probably you wouldn't consider saving the image to the camera roll as 'Sharing' it.
I have the same problem. This was working yesterday but the export function is not appearing today. Last night I updated the app to version 10.2.2 Is this a bug in the latest version or has it been removed intentionally?
I was wondering the same. The app is useless without this feature. I hope this is a bug (huge one) and it's not been removed on purpose. Cmon dropbox.
Totally agree error23.
And thank you Rich for clearing everything out.
Thanks Rich, glad to find this again. This is not intuitive ui or language though, not surprised it was hard to find...
This was a very poor design choice. Not intuitive at all and the additional steps are too time consuming. Please correct soon.
