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How can I find the total number of files in a folder?
Boy, am I disappointed with Dropbox. I assumed that each folder would display the number of files in that folder, without me jumping through all kinds of hoops. This seems not to be the case, however...
Are you referring to the Dropbox website or the folder on your computer. If it's the folder, use the features of your opreating system for that. If it's the Dropbox website, select all the files in the folder and the count will be shown in the upper right.
How do I determine how many files are contained in a folder on Dropbox? Manually counting the number will take too long. Is there a counter showing the number of files? Many thanks.
- Mark
Super User II
This was asked just below your post... have a look over at https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Photos-and-videos/How-can-I-find-the-total-number-of-files-in-a-folder/m-p/276877#M11257 :)
While the suggested techniques works to calculate the size of the folder and the number of items (folders within that folder), it does not calclate the number of total files in the main folder when there are sub folders. For example I want to know howmany jpg files I have an a particular travel itinerary, but for organizational purposes, I put each day's photos in a subfolder by date. I can't find any way to calulate the total number of files without having the folder sync to my desktop and then locating the information through my operating system OR opening each sub folder, calculating the number of files and repeating this for each sub folder and then adding those sub totals. There should be a way to do this in Dropbox if it is easy to do in in my desktop folder, especially when users are encouraged to keep folders online.
