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Import photos to the kDrive mobile app (Android)
This guide explains how to automatically transfer photos from your mobile device (Android) to kDrive Infomaniak.
Once this feature is activated, the photos from the mobile device (located in the folder of your choice) will be saved progressively in a folder of your choice on kDrive.
Prerequisites
Enable sending to kDrive on Android
To send photos to kDrive:
- Open the mobile app kDrive (Android).
- Tap the photo/initials at the bottom right.
- Tap Settings:
- Tap Photo backup:
- Activate Automatic backup using the toggle switch.
- Android may ask you at this point for access to all your photos, which you must accept:
- Android may ask you at this point for access to all your photos, which you must accept:
- Tap Select a kDrive:
- Choose the kDrive user (if you have linked several on your device) and then the kDrive linked to this user:
- Choose the folder in the kDrive directory (you can create a new folder if necessary) that will host your content and validate at the bottom.
- Choose the folder(s) on the mobile device where your photos to be sent to kDrive are located, then tap the cross:
- Configure the rest (sending including videos, monthly sorting, request to delete content remaining on the device, recursion, synchronization delay, etc.) then tap Save:
- If you have chosen to send all your existing content and not just new photos, then the upload of your files starts and you can follow it with the notifications of your mobile device:
- The new content appears gradually on all your devices, for example on the Web app kDrive (online service ksuite.infomaniak.com/kdrive), in the specified location.
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