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How can I find the total number of files in a folder?
Boy, am I disappointed with Dropbox. I assumed that each folder would display the number of files in that folder, without me jumping through all kinds of hoops. This seems not to be the case, however...
Are you referring to the Dropbox website or the folder on your computer. If it's the folder, use the features of your opreating system for that. If it's the Dropbox website, select all the files in the folder and the count will be shown in the upper right.
I can't believe after all this time and so many complaints that DropBox have still not fixed this fundamental flaw. It's been going on for years. So what Walter is saying as recently as two weeks ago is that the only way to get a full file count of an arbitrary folder containing sub folders is to download the files to a computer. I have a 65GB folder containg 17,000 photos and I want to check that I have the right number of files in the cloud before I delete them from the computer they were on. Firstly, I do not have sufficient free disk space to download them and even if I did I am in Africa with very poor (and expensive) bandwidth. What am I meant to do ? This is ridiculous.
Pretty incredible that Dropbox does not have this very basic feature. I am in the same boat. So much for comparing backups and restores with total file numbers.
Each dropbox folder should have an option called "Folder Info". That, at the very least, should tell you the size and file count of the folder.
- Daphne
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hey Allen77 and natlipson, thanks for sharing your thoughts here!
We currently have a request for this feature in our "Share an idea" section here. If you'd like to show your support for this, please check it out an upvote the idea.
Sorry that I can't be of much more help with this, but please don't hesitate to get back to me here with any other questions.
Have a great day!
Hi Daphne. Considering that the first post on thie issue was written almost two years ago and considering the length of this thread, your answer - which is the first really complete address of the issue - comes way too late. For almost two years there was complete disregard at worst or frutrating non-answer answers.
