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swansystem
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8 months ago

Need to know how many subfolders and files are nested inside any given folder, server-side

Good day we are evaluating migrating two companies from Sharepoint to Dropbox. We need a way to know how many subfolders and files are contained, server-side, under any given top-level folder. ...
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Hannah
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8 months ago

Hey swansystem, thanks for joining the Dropbox Community.

Except for the way you mentioned in your post, there's no other way to count all your files and folders through the Dropbox website.

If you're using the Dropbox desktop app, depending on your OS, you can use the info found in "get info" or "properties" for each top-level folder to find out this info.

We've passed your feedback to our team about this, though, and if you have any other questions, please let us know.

Thanks.

  • swansystem's avatar
    swansystem
    New member | Level 2
    8 months ago

    Dear Hannah

    many thanks. 

    ....no, I have not mentioned any method for doing what I need with Dropbox.
    The method I mentioned is offered by Sharepoint, but NOT by Dropbox.

    Consequently, you are telling me that there is no way to know how many files and folders we have on the Dropbox server.

    I trust you understand you're keeping quite a few businesses out of your door this way.
    A fast synchronization is important... but verifying synchronization is still more important.

    I hope this incredible limitation will be soon addressed.
    It takes literally nothing to introduce such function.

    The only reason for not allowing such count, is that either you're pushing your drives at such limit to not be able to keep up with recursive counting... or you don't trust the quality of your own synchronization.

    Both would be quite worrying, anyway.

    Kind regards
    E

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