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jrockel
Explorer | Level 3
6 years ago
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How can I move multiple files using the Dropbox site?

I'm sorry, but I put this in the wrong thread. I have been looking for a solution to moving multiple files on the web app. I'm not using a phone or a tablet, just a web interface. When I sellect mult...
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    Jay
    6 years ago

    Hi jrockel, thanks for joining the Community!

    When you have selected multiple files, click the ellipsis button on the right hand column, and then you can move the files to another folder on your account.

    Hope this helps!

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Daphne
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6 years ago

Thanks for joining the discussion here Mirage075!

 

Could you clarify for me if it's the action of moving of the files, or the sync afterwards that's taking a lot of time to process?

 

Let me know and we can go from there!

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Mirage075
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago
Hi Daphne,

it's the action of moving of the files that takes forever. The files are not on a local drive, only on Dropbox.

Thanks,

Tom
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    Daphne
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    6 years ago

    From what you mentioned, these files are Smart Synced as "online only", right?

     

    In this case, the "files" in the local Dropbox folder are just a placeholder for the actual file in Dropbox, and any action taken won't request data from the website. The change will just sync to the account online like with a local file.

     

    If moving these placeholders takes a long time, it may be due to the OS rather than Dropbox.

     

    To see if this is the case, can you try pausing the sync for the app and then move a small set of files/folders, to see if there is any difference than when the app is running?

     

    Please don't forget to resume the sync once the move has completed so that the change syncs online.

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      Mirage075
      Explorer | Level 4
      6 years ago

      Hi Daphne,

       

      No the files are not smart synced, the folders are specifically selected to not sync to my computer. Attached 2 screen shots where you can see that Camera uploads with 94gb is not checked for syncing and the new camera upload folders I made in the picture folder where I want to copy these pictures to. So all these files and folders are on Dropbox servers ONLY and not on my mac so I don't know why 1. it takes so long and 2. my mac has such a high CPU usage while doing this. Any thoughts? Can I do this differently? Should I try it on my iPad instead? Or use a Windows laptop to do it online?

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        Mirage075
        Explorer | Level 4
        6 years ago

        Here are the screenshots I mentioned for your reference.

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