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Vellariser1980's avatar
Vellariser1980
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

Bulk download all my files

Hi. I can no longer afford the monthly fee, but have 26gb of files. Please can you advise how I can do a bulk download perhaps multiple zip.files rather than individual downloads?Many thanks
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  • Elixir's avatar
    Elixir
    5 years ago

    To download all of your Dropbox files go to Dropbox web - https://www.dropbox.com/home You can split the data in few separate folders (so that in case a download fails during long downloads, you don't have to start from the beginning). Then you can download folders one by one. 

    It will download zip of each folder. Each folder should not be more than 20GB, or contain more than 10,000 files - https://help.dropbox.com/sync/download-entire-folders 

     

    Mod note: edited to update link in post [last update 2022]

     

Sarah B.83's avatar
Sarah B.83
New member | Level 2

How can I select more than one folder to download all at once?

Jay's avatar
Jay
Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
5 years ago

Hi Sarah B.83, thanks for messaging the Community!

 

If you select the folders you want to download from the left by selecting the checkboxes, then you should get a Download option on the top right.

 

As mentioned above, the folders selected shouldn't contain more than 10,000 files or be over 20 GB in total.

 

Let me know how it goes!

  • benjaminjess's avatar
    benjaminjess
    New member | Level 2
    11 months ago

    Hi Jay,

     

    Have you improved upon this in the past 3 years?

     

    My data is in various states of online/offline and I would like to create a local backup to an external drive of my entire dropbox drive, should there ever be any issues on your end with my data, or with syncing. I'm sure you've done your best to prevent them, but failures occur.

     

    This process seems archaic and entirely tedious and an intentional friction point to ensure user retention—it's kinda gross. Can you please advise if you have an actual, reasonable solution to this thread's original question?

     

    Thanks,

    B

    • Jay's avatar
      Jay
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      11 months ago

      Hi benjaminjess, there haven't been any new updates which could help in relation to this matter, nor are there any workarounds that we can offer. 

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