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hsaccount
Collaborator | Level 9
10 months ago

How can I download my Dropbox contents onto an external drive?

I'm really really disappointed with Dropbox over the last several years. I had an enormous issue as did others with preview of images and photos on my laptop which after a multi-year discussion on th...
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Jay
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10 months ago

Hi hsaccount, thanks for posting today.

We appreciate the feedback on this matter.

Currently, there isn't a method to directly download the Dropbox account to an external drive without copying an existing Dropbox folder there, or manually moving it through the Dropbox desktop application.

We take all comments into consideration when improving the Dropbox site and services.

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hsaccount
Collaborator | Level 9
10 months ago

Yes I realize you have no solution for direct download to external drive. But in addition when I tell Dropbox to download a folder, it doesn't consistently download every file in the folder. So I have to look in each folder to see if it is ready to be copied from windows explorer to the external drive. This eats tons of time to get a clean download!

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