Dropbox and iphotos

ceewash

I've been using dropbox for a while now and am v pleased with it. Recently it asked if I wanted to upload photos on iphoto to dropbox. I answered yes but now every time I put laptop on it is syncing files from iphoto. Sometimes it has 2 hrs to go, today it said 2 days to go! Is this all correct? Is it slowing down laptop whilst syncing? and will it do this every time I switch on? I haven't taken any photos recently so they are not new ones.

InsideInsurance

I guess it depends on how it works. iPhoto stores all the photos in the library in a single file. Everytime you do anything to the library then this file is changed and so would require reuploading. I know our library file is 100gb or more so would take an age to upload

ceewash

Why does it not just upload the new stuff?

ceewash

Can I disconnect it?

scottishblondie

It will be busy uploading every photograph you have stored in iPhoto. The variation in time remaining will be due to the upload speeds it's managing to get at different times. It will keep doing this until it has the whole lot uploaded, so unless you want all of them in your Dropbox I would turn off iPhoto synch in the Dropbox settings.

InsideInsurance

ceewash wrote: »

Why does it not just upload the new stuff?

Because, by default, its just 1 file and Dropbox cannot upload just the changed part of one file and has to upload the complete file.

You may be able to look at the settings for iPhoto as I know there is an option to have the files stored separately in addition to the large file but dont know if it can be exclusively stored separately.

If it can the do this and select the target to be within your dropbox