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Excalibur59's avatar
Excalibur59
Explorer | Level 4
6 months ago

Can I export the entire "camera uploads" folder to my device?

I've already search online and here but I can't find a solution. I've deleted by error the "camera" folder on my android phone (S23 Ultra). I still have all photos in the dropbox folder named "Camera...
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Dell_Dropbox
Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
6 months ago

I have a Galaxy phone also, one option to quickly move these files from the Dropbox Android app would be to :

  1. Navigate to the Camera uploads folder in your dropbox account
  2. Select the "select all" button, Its the square with a checkmark in it at the top of the screen. 
  3. With all of your photos selected click "Save To Device"
  4. Dropbox will bring up your phone's internal file system, from here choose the folder you want to save to, or create a new one. 
  5. Click "Use This Folder" to begin exporting
  • Excalibur59's avatar
    Excalibur59
    Explorer | Level 4
    6 months ago

    Hello DF-Dropbox and thanks for your help. I've followed your steps, clicked on "select all" ... Too many elements (max 1000), but I have around 16.000 photos/videos 😁

    Can I move ALL of them in just one step or I really need to divide in a thousand chunk each?

    Thanks again for enlightning these steps ("Save to Device" is an icon not very intuitive to find), and I hope there's a turnaround for the transfer's limit.

    Alfredo

    • Nancy's avatar
      Nancy
      Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
      6 months ago

      Hey Alfredo! Hope you don’t mind if I jump in here. 

      Can you send us a screenshot of what you see exactly when trying to select all files in one go? We can look into this further this way.

      • Excalibur59's avatar
        Excalibur59
        Explorer | Level 4
        5 months ago

        I'm trying to insert link to image but this is what I get:
        Content Not Published
        Your post contains invalid HTML. Remove the following invalid tags before publishing: a, a (class)

        Maybe you can go to image with this: imgur (dot) com (/) a(/) 6yvCPY7

        Anyway the text in the popup (in italian) says: Too many elements selected (max 1000). Remove some elements and try again.

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