Forum Discussion

gbcvb's avatar
gbcvb
New member | Level 2
7 months ago

Can I download 2TB of files in one go, without syncing them to my computer first?

Boss wants me to back up all of our assets from dropbox to the company's servers here in our office "just in case."  Problem is that's hundreds of folders, almost 2TB of data (photos, videos, d...
Download
sync
Web
Nancy's avatar
Nancy
Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
7 months ago

Thanks for posting on our Community today, gbcvb​.

On the Dropbox website, there’s a downloading limit of 250GB indeed, so you’d need to download the content in batches unfortunately.

If you don’t wish to do this, then you’d need to download/sync the files locally to your Mac device (with the desktop app) and then, copy them to the external drive. 

Wish I could be more helpful, but feel free to ping me for anything else.

About View, download, and export

Node avatar for View, download, and export
Need support with viewing, downloading, and exporting files and folders from your Dropbox account? Find help from the Dropbox Community.

The Dropbox Community team is active from Monday to Friday. We try to respond to you as soon as we can, usually within 2 hours.

If you need more help you can view your support options (expected response time for an email or ticket is 24 hours), or contact us on X, Facebook or Instagram.

For more info on available support options for your Dropbox plan, see this article.

If you found the answer to your question in this Community thread, please 'like' the post to say thanks and to let us know it was useful!