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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]
I have the same issue. I have over 3TB of data and now cannot afford the subscription. Dropbox is forcing me to download 20 GB at a time - except I have a few files that are over this size and there's no way to download them.
I think it's fair to say that my data is being held, hostage.
The solution I finally came to after much back and forth with Dropbox support was for them to give me a 14 day trial of the business/professional level subscription, which allowed me time to hook a computer up to gigabit internet service and sync my files to me desktop. After that was done, I promptly deleted everything from Dropbox and moved all my data over to my Google Workspace account. It's much more flexible and is working well until I finish building my own cloud storage setup (NAS with private access). Then I can be done being dependent upon these cutthroat companies holding my data and files hostage.
