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johnlink
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3 years ago

Can I download my Dropbox files to a USB?

I have a paid "Plus" version of Dropbox subscription. I have around 262Gb of files on my Dropbox in a complex set of directories. I need to download all of them inc the directory structures to a 2T...
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3 years ago
johnlink wrote:

I have around 262Gb of files on my Dropbox in a complex set of directories. I need to download all of them inc the directory structures to a 2Tb USB. ... I just want to get these files directly from Dropbox.

You can certainly download them from Dropbox, but it would be a manual process through the Dropbox website. You wouldn't be able to download them all at once. You can download a folder and it will be compressed into a Zip file, but the folder needs to be less than 20GB with fewer than 10,000 files. You'll need to download your full set of file in multiple downloads.

 

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