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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.
Yes, this is sorely needed. It should show the amount of files in a folder.
Also, we should be able to choose to have more than 3 columns displayed if we want. For example, I would want Name, Size, # of files, and date last modified.
Lastly, it should carry over into integrations. I have found that the size is not carrying over into our Salesforce.com for folders.
This doesn't seem that hard, quite being obtuse Dropbox and let people customize their file organization experience per their preferences, not what you think people want...
