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Brylske
New member | Level 2
6 months ago

Can't copy a Dropbox folder to an external drive when using Mac OS

When I try to copy a Dropbox FOLDER to a SanDisk 1TB external drive, I get the message, "The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code 0)." However, I have no prob...
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Jay's avatar
Jay
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6 months ago

Hi Brylske, thanks for messaging the Community.

 

Just for clarification, are you copying the entire Dropbox folder itself, or a folder within the Dropbox folder, or are you moving the Dropbox folder using these steps?

 

This will help me to assist further!

  • Gun_eye's avatar
    Gun_eye
    New member | Level 2
    5 months ago

    I keep getting messages that I'm running out of space so I'd like to reduce the number of files in DROPBOX by moving some of the oldest files (which I would not like to lose) to an external drive and deleting from DROPBOX thus leaving more space.

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