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mak1947
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

How to create a local backup of all dropbox files

 Hi all,

I am using Dropbox Professional package with 3TB storage and have a lot of files on my dropbox.

I want to create a local backup of all my files.

 

I tried doing it by going to dropbox web page and selected the folder containing all my files, however the error says that "THERE ARE TOO MANY FILES TO ZIP". So, it appears that number of files cannot be zipped as they are beyond the limit of zip app.

 

Can anyone help me out a way around it?

 

PS: The ultimate purpose is to download all files as one folder and upload onto OneDrive as I am shifting from Dropbox to OneDrive.

Thanks

 

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    Rich
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    3 years ago

    mak1947 wrote:

    The ultimate purpose is to download all files as one folder and upload onto OneDrive as I am shifting from Dropbox to OneDrive.


    Use a third-party service like MultCloud to migrate from one storage provider to another.

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