how do I transfer photos from dropbox to my computer and delete them from my dropbox?

[Ida L.]

I want to move all my photos/files from dropbox to an external hard drive, remove them from my dropbox without delete any photos by mistake or anything. This is to organize my photos and files properly, so I can use my dropbox as a temporarily back up for my more recent photos which is why I wanted to use dropbox as in the first place!

There are several photos on my dropbox that doesn't show in my dropbox-app for my pc but I have a lot of old pictures there and I don't want to delete them, only remove them from dropbox and keep them on my computer. I have approximately 231 recent photos(on my phone) that I can't save on my dropbox because I don't have enough space. But I don't want to upgrade since I don't really need that much space. I just want to transfer them to an external hard drive via my computer.

I'm not good in English, but I hope someone understand what I want to do and can help me!

[Gresley W.]

I have an answer: on the left-hand list of options of your Dropbox online, click Photos. It will have all your photos arranged by date. I have no idea why it does this, but so it is. Once you're there, hover your mouse over a photo. You can select individual photos, or use the Select button in the top right of the date-based group, to select all in that date's photos.

Once you've selected, a bar will appear across the top of screen, with buttons are for share with Facebook, Twitter etc. The white button with three dots gives you more options. Click the Download option, it will allow you to save a zip to your computer. Once you've extracted the files from the zip, there are your photos, in your computer.

[Robin A.8]

Folks seem to be doing a lot of extra time consuming work here. When I set up Dropbox, there's a Dropbox folder in Users/myusername (similar on Win and Mac). In that folder I put folders that I want synchronized across all my computers and on Dropbox cloud. If you put your photos folder in the Dropbox folder, they will be synchronized (and not moved, normally) to the cloud. If you set up another device (I use an iPad for example), whatever is in the Dropbox folder will then download and be also on the other device.

This gives a wonderful sense of safety (with one caveat) since the same files are in multiple places. The one caveat is that it also synchronizes deletes. So if you delete a file on your computer, that will delete the file on Dropbox cloud and all your devices set up to synchronize. This can be super scary if you don't have a second type of backup. In other words, Dropbox is great for synchronization but you still need another type of backup such as to an external hard drive or two.

But by all means set up synchronization so you don't have to do the "few files at a time" thing. Not necessary.

[Robin e.]

And to an ipad???? I dont want to pay another year! I cannot find any andwers how to put al my pics on my ipad and not having to do it 1 pic at the time!! Please anyone

[Ken J.5]

As a Technical Writer, the Dropbox "help" on this subject SUCKS! If you want to delete many photos you have to click on a date in the right hand side of the Timeline display. Then click Select and it selects all of the photos for that date. Right click and select delete X number of photos. Thanks to the USER who led me to this solution.

[karen h.23]

If everyone is having the same problem with Dropbox, it seems they are scamming all of us.  My daughter sent our Hawaii vacation photos through dropbox and now everything I upload goes directly there, which I didn't want! Of course, I'm almost out of space and they want to sell me more. I quit putting photos on my computer until I can figure out how to get my pictures back and get uninstall Dropbox.  I'm not very tech savvy so I'm afraid to try some of the suggestions I'm reading.  I think the class action suit sounds like a good idea!

[Ken J.5]

Karen,

MY problem was that my camera was uploading all its photos to dropbox! There is a setting on the mobile dropbox that allows you to turn that off. Not sure if that addresses YOUR issue...

Also under the web version, there is a place to link/unlink devices under Settings>Security

[Barbara D.12]

Why doesn't an expert give us the answer?

[jimmy n.5]

1. I want to download m'y photos to m'y computer

[jimmy n.5]

1. l want to sée m'y photos stored indropbox

[Barbara D.]

Thx Ken J. That did the trick! ; )