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NJoyDolph
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Move Files from Dropbox to external harddrive.

Hi

I'm working remotely as a video editor. My client sent video files to me via Dropbox and I need to move them to an external harddrive so I can edit them. But I don't have any space on my MacBook to link the online files to the app. Can you help me?

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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    2 years ago
    NJoyDolph wrote:

    But I don't have any space on my MacBook to link the online files to the app.

    If you don't have enough space on your local drive to use the sync application, you can download the files directly from the Dropbox website and save them to your external drive.

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    Rich
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    2 years ago
    NJoyDolph wrote:

    But I don't have any space on my MacBook to link the online files to the app.

    If you don't have enough space on your local drive to use the sync application, you can download the files directly from the Dropbox website and save them to your external drive.

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