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move contents of dropbox to external hard drive
how do I move contents of dropbox
i.e my files and photos to an external hard drive
thanks folks
- Do you have the Dropbox client installed on your computer? If so, then your files will be syncing to your computer. They'll be in the Dropbox folder. Just copy them to your external drive like you would any other file.
If you're not already syncing your files and you just use the Dropbox website, then you'll need to download your files and save them to your external drive. The easier method would be to install the Dropbox client, let it sync all of your files to your computer, uninstall the client, and then move the Dropbox folder to your external drive. - [mod edit 2023, updated Help Center link]
Like everyone else, I'm having trouble moving files from dropbox to an external hard drive. Why would anyone use dropbox knowing how difficult this is? This is a temp solution with a no-win ending!
jayne wrote:
how do I move contents of dropbox
i.e my files and photos to an external hard drive
thanks folks
Why would anyone voluntarily engage with Dropbox, knowing how impossible they make it to disengage . . . This is a scam.
I dropped Dropbox Pro in favour of Google Drive due to issues with external drives. Google handles external drives much better IMO.
Audio and video professionals need to use externals, sometimes we need to unmount them for transfers etc. It would be nice to be able to do that without thinking that Dropbox is going to register all files as being deleted.
Honestly, I'd sign back up if you could work out a better solution.
