How to move Files to a Folder Outside Dropbox on Mac

Hey dianefranklin, thanks for joining our Community.

Do you have the Dropbox application installed on your Mac computer?

If you do, and if all your files are set to 'available offline', you should be able to drag them out of the Dropbox folder in Finder, and drop them to any other location you want.

This will delete them from Dropbox and move them to the location you chose.

If Dropbox space is the issue, you can always make your files 'online-only' or use selective sync, to free up some space, without deleting files from Dropbox.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks for the information. But I could not find anywhere to see the files to be available offline. Can you explain how to set them as available offline?

The closest thing I found that might work was being able to download the files to another place on my computer. But that seemed to require me to download the files one at a time. I'd like to move the entire folder at once.

Thanks.

No worries, Diane!

You should be able to right-click on the Dropbox folder itself and choose "make available offline". 

Thanks, but right clicking doesn't work. These are the options I get when I right click on the folder:

I'm working on a Mac, OS 12.1. Any other suggestions?

Thanks

Hi dianefranklin, you're currently using the Dropbox site. 

Please could you open Finder instead and locate your Dropbox folder and check the files there?

Hi Jay,

I just did what you requested and "make available offline" is not a choice when I right click in Finder.

Any other thoughts?

Thanks,

Diane

Hey Diane, can you send us a screenshot of how your files appear in the Dropbox folder?

I couldn't figure out how to attach a screenshot so I just copied the jpg into the message. This is how my files look when they appear in the Dropbox folder.

I did figure out how to download Dropbox files to another folder on my hard drive. When I then deleted that downloaded folder in Dropbox, however, it didn't seem to reduce the Dropbox usage. I'm not sure why.

Are you sure that the folders are deleted from within the Dropbox folder? Do the folders still appear on the Dropbox site when you login to your account?

When you click the Dropbox icon once, in the menu bar at the top of the screen, what message do you see on the bottom left?

No, the files no longer appear when I log into Dropbox on the web.

The message I see at the bottom of the screen is 1.75 GB of 2.25 GB used. That's the only message I saw. I believe that that was the same amount of storage that I had left before deleting my files.But they weren't huge files.

Should I just continue downloading files as I've been doing and deleting them from Dropbox since I don't seem to have any of the other options indicated in earlier messages?