how do I transfer photos from dropbox to my computer and delete them from my dropbox?

This note is for Skills F. December 22, 2015 14:19 post.

I followed your instructions and all worked perfectly.  Once I moved my photos and looked at the steps it all made sense.  

Thanks for the help 

I have a Samsung Galaxy smart camera with photos on Dropbox.  I installed and signed in with same account on both laptop and iPhone and it doesn't show any photos.  I just want those photo downloaded either on phone or laptop  and then get rid of Dropbox - i have no control where my pictures go.  I hate hate dropbox

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Can anyone tell me what to do for Mac Book Pro? No right clicks on my machine! Trying to move photo folders from Dropbox to external hard drive.

Hi everyone, I'm just moving my photos to my external HD now and I have realized (forgive me if this has been mentioned already ) that when I am within Dropbox online/ web I can't drag and drop anything to my Desktop/ HD etc...(obviously repeated the mistake 20 times to be sure :P )

...but when I open the Dropbox FOLDER icon ..all files are listed as almost a real copy, and these we can move about! yay! :)

So at the top of my Mac browser is the Dropbox icon..when I click on this there's a folder and world (wide web) icon in grey, top left, you want the folder. 

Then when they are safely over you can delete from Dropbox and clear up some space. 

Best of luck! 

Well I guess I will follow these advises😊

all I had to do was right click on the file I wanted and it gave a dropdown menu.chose download. it was pretty simple.

I was looking for help, too.  My experience is I must spend the time to take them off one by one. Taking off hundreds of photos will take time. Either that, or spend a significant amount of time looking for answers that apparently don't exist when you could be spending that hour downloading to your computer. Seems to be how people want to share them with me.  Easier for THEM to share, a nightmare for ME to download each and every one!  All I can say is I am happy that I never thought it was a good way to store my own pictures!  I'll stick to my computer hard drive.  Good luck everyone.

Show me how to transfer all my photos to my computer. I don't want to pay a fee to keep them in drpbow. Thank you.

I don't know if this will help anybody or not, but I was having the same issue (wanting the photos from Dropbox's "cloud" to be on my computer hardrive).  Here is what worked for me...   (I have a Mac (perhaps a PC works similar to this regarding Dropbox?)..

1) I downloaded the Dropbox Desktop App to my computer.  

2) In the "margin" of my "Finder" (for PC, this might be "Computer" folder), I see the words "Dropbox" appear when I sign in to Dropbox.

3) I click on that.  Within that folder I see folders such as, "Apps", "Camera Uploads", "Getting Started", and a folder that was personally named (that someone took of me in a photoshoot that they had sent me through Dropbox and which I was looking for). 

When I looked through these folders, I found my pics.  It was like my Desktop App had somehow synced my pics into this folder which I could now drag and drop all the pics into any folder I want...which is pretty cool :)  

I think someone in Dropbox advanced the program, which I really appreciate a lot!  Thanks Dropbox for creating new solutions! (But please make it more obvious for users, as well as an easy-to-find instructions/help on how to do this...in case some people prefer to use Dropbox as  a temporary holding place, but not permanent holding place).

Hope this helps! :) :)

I have an answer: on the left-hand list of options of your Dropbox online, click Photos. It will have all your photos arranged by date. I have no idea why it does this, but so it is. Once you're there, hover your mouse over a photo. You can select individual photos, or use the Select button in the top right of the date-based group, to select all in that date's photos.

Once you've selected, a bar will appear across the top of screen, with buttons are for share with Facebook, Twitter etc. The white button with three dots gives you more options. Click the Download option, it will allow you to save a zip to your computer. Once you've extracted the files from the zip, there are your photos, in your computer.