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The ideal solution for saving photos in the cloud?

norweger

norweger

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I have been using Dropbox a while, but whenever I take a photo there is a copy on my phone storage and a copy in the cloud. So when I am going to delete the files on my phone, I have to check if it has been synced to the cloud or not.

Is there a way to automatically store camera photos only in the cloud, and not both in the cloud and on the SD card?

I have just recently got a HTC One, and Google keeps asking me to «share» images whenever I take them. Is there a way to turn that off?
 
Thanks for the tip.

If anyone knows of a setting/method to do this in the Google app, then shout out.

Google Drive stores images automatically, but it's all on my SD card until I manually remove them. That manual job would be more smooth if I knew for certain that it was safe to wipe the DCIM folder. Right now there's a lot of double checking.
 
The new Google Photos app automatically uploads, but if you delete photos on the phovne they also get deleted in the cloud, or delete in the cloud, they're deleted on the phone.

Google+ does automatic uploads, but then...well, then they're in Google+. IDK what happens when photos are deleted there. I never wanted anything to do with Google+.

Neither one saves photos in full resolution.

With FolderSync you can save photos in full resolution. You can do one-way or two-way sync to control the effect of deletions. And as I said before, you can set FolderSync to delete the original after uploading.

FolderSync does more - immediate or scheduled sync, WiFi only, notifications,, etc etc. And of course it works with any files, not just photos.
 
Thanks!

Does FolderSync drain much battery?

Right now the battery becomes flat after 5 hours of standby (yes), I guess there are some apps/settings that drains it.
 
Nah, no big battery hit unless, I suppose, you transfer a lot of files. But normally it just sits in memory as a service-only process, waiting for a scheduled sync, file change or photo to be taken. Uses a very, very minor amount of power in that state.
 
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