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dgallant
5 days agoHelpful | Level 5
Can I download my external drive backup onto my new external drive?
Hello
The external USB hard drive which I used with Dropbox Backup was physically damaged and will not connect. I would like to download 1TB of files stored in Dropbox Backup to put onto a new driv...
dgallant
Helpful | Level 5
Any tips to downloading a folder with a large amount of files? Even chunking it is causing a chrome browser download not to finish
Rich
17 hours agoSuper User II
dgallant wrote:Any tips to downloading a folder with a large amount of files? Even chunking it is causing a chrome browser download not to finish
Are you comfortable working in the command line/terminal? If so, try the dbxcli utility.
- dgallant8 hours agoHelpful | Level 5
Thank you for this Rich. Not ideal, but we can work through this. This is the first progress that I have made in Months. My only other option is to continue to explore the Apps, to see if any are integrated into Backup.
I have a large folder of >10,000 files, which chews up my browser when I try to download. It is a shame that Dropbox marketing encourages folks to use a half-baked feature that feels like it came out of a hackathon.
- dgallant8 hours agoHelpful | Level 5
Could Dropbox Support staff migrate the files in a Backup into a standard Dropbox folder? So I could sync it offline for example?
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