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rotzooi
New member | Level 2
7 years ago

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...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    7 years ago

    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.

     

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Rich
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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.

 

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natlipson
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

This will NOT work if there are MANY files (thousands) in the folder because the webpage loads them in groups. So if, for example, you have a folder with 50,000 files, that method would actually miselad you to think there are much less than there are.

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