Transfer files from Dropbox to one Drive

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Mary Beth wrote:

How do I transfer all the files in Dropbox to one Drive.

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Download your files and then upload them to OneDrive, or use a third-party service such as movebot.io.

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Also, I want to know my storage amount in dropbox so that I can determine the correct amount service level for One Drive.

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You can find that information on your Plan page.

HI Rich,

Thanks so much.

Do I just click download, then when complete, I upload to One Drive? HOw long does the donwlad, then the upload generally take?

Is it that easy, what is the advantage of movebot.  Also, is it free or is there a service charge?

Sorry to follow up with mundane questions at this late hour, but important to me.

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Mary Beth wrote:

HOw long does the donwlad, then the upload generally take?

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No one can answer that. It depends on the size of your files, your Internet speed, etc. There are too many variable for anyone to even guess at that.

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Is it that easy, what is the advantage of movebot.

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If you have a lot of files, it does the transfer for you.

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Also, is it free or is there a service charge?

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You'd have to ask them or check their site.

Rich

When I tried to download photos from Dropbox to my computer there were some files missing (say 50 our of 1,500). Any sense of why? Ideally I am just moving them to One Drive to free up space in Dropbox as Mary Beth wrote.

Thanks,

Jeff

Hi there NiceGuy33 - sorry to jump in here, but can you let us know if you downloaded your files in batches or in one go? Were they all inside a folder? 

Have you tried downloading the ones that weren't downloaded in the first place? '

Any additional information is more than welcome, Jeff. 

Walter,

Thank you for your quick response.

In response to your questions:

• The photos are in the "Photos" folder below.
• I did the download a while ago but I believe I copied them in the folder titled "Dropbox Camera Uploads" and then downloaded that folder.
• There are about 1,500 pictures in total.
• I am happy to try to move them again if you can confirm the best process but I just want to confirm the best approach to ensure no photos or videos etc. are lost.

Thanks,

Jeff

Hi NiceGuy33, sorry to jump in here! 

Do you use the desktop app locally on your device? If so, then the changes should automatically sync from the web, to your device. 

Now, if you're not doing it that way, and you wish to download them from the website directly, then I'd suggest that you "break" them into smaller batches of let's say 100-200 files, and download them that way.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Thanks Megan,

I do not have the app on my computer but have Dropbox set up in Windows Explorer and I dragged the files across to my desktop. 

I will try to do it in smaller batches and see if that will work.

Jeff

Keep us posted with any update, Jeff! 

My advice is to do this very carefully and start out with a few unimportant files.

Being a "braces and belt" kinda person I thought having an additional online backup was a good idea so a few years ago I tried to use One Drive for that.

The result was a disaster:

One Drive stripped all my content out of Dropbox and stored it in the "clouds" and my attempts to recover them caused such a mess that I had to take the computer to a guru to sort it out. In the end he had to use my backup hard drive to recover everything. Like most Microsoft software One Drive appears to be "jealous" and does not like sharing with third party apps.

I had One drive removed from that computer and while it came installed on this machine I won't touch it with a bargepole.

Maybe your computer skills are a few levels above mine but I would definitely approach this task with extreme caution and ensure you have a physical backup of everything before you start.