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dgallant
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Can I download my external drive backup onto my new external drive?

Hello The external USB hard drive which I used with Dropbox Backup was physically damaged and will not connect. I would like to download 1TB of files stored in Dropbox Backup to put onto a new driv...
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dgallant
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Any tips to downloading a folder with a large amount of files? Even chunking it is causing a chrome browser download not to finish 

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    Rich
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    2 years ago
    dgallant wrote:

    Any tips to downloading a folder with a large amount of files? Even chunking it is causing a chrome browser download not to finish

    Are you comfortable working in the command line/terminal? If so, try the dbxcli utility.

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      dgallant
      Helpful | Level 6
      2 years ago

      Thank you for this Rich. Not ideal, but we can work through this. This is the first progress that I have made in Months. My only other option is to continue to explore the Apps, to see if any are integrated into Backup. 

       

      I have a large folder of >10,000 files, which chews up my browser when I try to download. It is a shame that Dropbox marketing encourages folks to use a half-baked feature that feels like it came out of a hackathon. 

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        dgallant
        Helpful | Level 6
        2 years ago

        Could Dropbox Support staff migrate the files in a Backup into a standard Dropbox folder? So I could sync it offline for example? 

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