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Fraser Y.'s avatar
Fraser Y.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Copying Files from Dropbox to portable memory stick or hard drive?

Can anyone help? I'm having trouble moving my files, I have Dropbox on my phone, tablet, home computer, work computer and work apartment but recently I've noticed If i try to copy a film for example,...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    8 years ago
    If they are downloaded to your computer in the Dropbox folder then just move them like you would any other file/folder as thats exactly what they are.

    If they are online you'll need to go to www.dropbox.com/home first and select the ones you want to download and then download them to the flash drive. If you select multiple files they'll download as a zip so you may need to unzip them.
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Chris_J
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9 years ago

Janet M

So what you are saying you are having permissions problems copying files to a flash drive or USB stick, correct?  at least thats what the poster issue is.  If so, have you tried copying the folders to your desktop then move them to Flash drive?

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