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Philip T.2
10 years agoNew member | Level 1
Upload entire folders to Dropbox
I'm trying to upload a folder and all of its subfolders to Dropbox (actually I have a bunch to move, but I'm just trying to do one for now). The folder has multiple subfolders and each subfolder of c...
- 9 years ago
It seems that this is not the fault of Dropbox. The fault seems to be with Firefox and other browsers (with the exception of Chrome). Also, same thing happens in Google Drive, can only drag and drop / upload folders there successfully with Chrome. According to the following website, http://superuser.com/questions/909112/does-firefox-support-folder-upload , Firefox is aware of this bug, and has been testing fixes with nightly beta trials. Hope this helps...
John P.121
9 years agoNew member | Level 1
Like David W. I have numerous files with complex subfolders on external hard drives that I would like to have available on dropbox. I do not have sufficient storage available on my local drive to drag and drop the files into dropbox and I cannot get another computer for that purpose. From what I have read it appears that drop box is not able to upload multiple folders from external drives via dropbox.com. Does this mean that the only way to move my folders (hundreds of folders and subfolders) would be to spend hours manually recreating the file structures on dropbox.com?
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