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captain-janeway's avatar
captain-janeway
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

moving files directly to an external drive to save space

My free account is almost full and I'd like to pull some folders out of Dropbox and save them to an external drive, then delete the folder from Droppbox. Is there a way to do this?   I may be just...
  • Jay's avatar
    2 years ago

    Hi captain-janeway, thanks for messaging the Community!

     

    Do you have the Dropbox desktop application installed on your machine? This will allow you to easily drag the folder from Explorer/Finder onto your external drive, thus freeing up the space on your account.

     

    This will help me to assist further!