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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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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

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Nancy
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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.

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    Excalibur59
    Explorer | Level 4
    6 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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      Megan
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      6 months ago

      Hey Excalibur59, thanks for the heads up! 

      From the error message that you get it sounds like it'd be best to split the content into smaller batches of 1K files, before saving it to your device. 

      Can you try it, and let us know how this works for you?

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

        Hi Megan, and thanks for your reply.

        I'd like to but that is not an option as the alternative to select the entire folder is to select the photos one-by-one and it'd took ages.
        I really don't understand why I can't move the entire folder to my phone ... I hope you can have a workaround to this and help me get my photos on the phone again :)

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