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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
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]
So, "No," then, right?
Because making it easy to move your files makes the product less sticky. So screw the user experience and keep those autorenew payments coming, amirite?
Mark
Super User II
Super User IIOr do as the product intended and download and install Dropbox on your device and let it all download in one go without any human input at all. Remember that the whole point of Dropbox by design is to use it via the software from www.dropbox.com/downloading. The website is only intended to be used when people do not have access to their computers
I don't think the OP specified a particular client. But thanks for suggesting the app, I'll try that.
And I thank you Dropbox for your service, you were there for me when hard drives were expensive and internet speeds were getting fast. But I've spent way too much on you now and just want to copy all my files down to my $80 4TB hard drive now.
How about when Dropbox sync stops working a year ago and nothing their support staff tries fixes it and you just want to download your files and move on?
Mark wrote:Or do as the product intended and download and install Dropbox on your device and let it all download in one go without any human input at all. Remember that the whole point of Dropbox by design is to use it via the software from www.dropbox.com/downloading. The website is only intended to be used when people do not have access to their computers
This will not work. In my experience over the years using Dropbox on different platforms, the clients are not reliable enough to do this with large amounts of data. Things will be missing or corrupted. In normal use cases this is probably fine, because the client can make you wait while it retrieves another copy.
Dropbox does not provide a sensible way to retrieve your data. Your best bet is to trust some third party tool that hooks into the API.
It's still not possible to bulk download all files, the desktop apps only syncs. Plus, I've found a virus that resides on dropbox cache even if I have cleaned my whole system, it still shows the virus in dropbox cache... (and yes, I have deleted all files locally in dropbox cache... it's like the virus is online in dropbox, and everytime it syncs, I get the virus on my pc again...)
- Rich
ainmo wrote:
Plus, I've found a virus that resides on dropbox cache ...
It's likely a false positive due to the way files are chunked and stored prior to syncing. It's best to add the .dropbox.cache folder to your antivirus exclusions list. If it was an actual virus, your antivirus would still pick it up in the Dropbox folder when the file is fully synced and reassembled.
