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download from cloud to external drive
Questions like this have been asked before, but I haven't found an answer yet. My apologies if I missed something.
I am going to Antarctica for a year, and my access to the internet will not be...
The only way to do that is to manually download via the website and save it manually to the drive (as in select each file or folder and choose the download location as the external drive)
Mark
Super User II
Super User IIThe only way to do that is to manually download via the website and save it manually to the drive (as in select each file or folder and choose the download location as the external drive)
Thanks. I was hoping that wouldn't be the case, but it's good to know for sure.
It's not.
I just searched around, and found lots of terrible solutions, until I realized a very easy solve. In Chrome, or Safari go to Preferences / Downloads / and change the download location to your external hard drive. Done.
Anything you download will now go directly to the folder you chose on the external hard drive. Not just Dropbox, but everything. So make sure to change it back when you're done. Or not. As ya wish.
Come on thumbs up, gimme gimme. I don't usually write these things. Cheers!
