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Luke S.3
11 years agoNew member | Level 1
How can I transfer a photo album to my desktop?
I want to transfer one album of approx 400 photos to my Mac's desktop. Can't figure out any way of doing this. Can't drag and drop. Can't copy and paste. The only options I'm given are to delete ...
Lamis K.
10 years agoNew member | Level 2
Hi everyone, the solution I found to my own questions.
This is what I did to get access to the photos I required.
I went into Dropbox online.
Clicked on the left column to the 'Photos' section.
In the 'Photos' folder I 'clicked' on the pictures I wanted to download to my Mac/PC etc.
So I clicked for example 10 pictures (which turns the pics border blue)
Then once I have selected all 10 pictures I went to the top right hand corner of screen to the '3 little circles tab' , click on this and choose 'Add to Album' and you have an option to 'Create a New Album'
Once you have created a photo Album you will see it's link at the Left side column. Click on the Album and at the top right hand side of the picture gallery go to 'Share Album' (in blue) and click on this and you will get a pop up. On the pop up go to the bottom right side to the tab 'Get Link'
Once you click on this tab, you will get another pop up with the URL address to the link. Press 'Go to Link', once you click this you will get a new page appear.
On the new page you will see your Album again. On this new page above the gallery there is a tab which says 'Download' click this only once.
Once you click this, that whole album will start downloading to your Mac/PC as a whole folder of your photo album which you can now move to a folder in your Mac/PC or Folder in your Dropbox in your Mac/PC.
Note: You can delete any albums you have created in your Photo's folder on your Online Dropbox folders, by deleting an album will not delete the original picture from 'Photos'
This is the only way I have found in order to get to download the photos which have been uploaded to Dropbox.
Let me know how you get on…..
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