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Printing a list of files in Dropbox
I've been trying to figure out if there is a way to print a list of files in a Dropbox folder. Turns out there is no such printing option. However, if you select all files with Ctrl + A, all subfolders and files will be selected. Then using Ctrl + C, copy to the clipboard. Next open a new blank Word document and paste (Ctrl +V) to the Word page. All text should appear from the Dropbox webpage. Delete whatever text is not relevant and you'll be left with a list of folders and files.
I know this is an old question but I still have this issue and have found a workaround to share:
For me there is far too much data to sync it locally, so it has to be from the browser interface.1. Select a file folder at random
2. Choose "Copy"
3. The popup dialog that appears gives you the option to choose a folder to copy it into. From this popup, at least in Chrome, I'm able to highlight all the files in that folder by just holding down the mouse to select and drag.
4. Open a word file - paste. All the file names are pasted into a list, separated by line breaks. From here I can import to excel or google sheets and do whatever I need to sort/track/search.
Hope that helps anyone!- Graham
Community Manager
Hi jlrgentry,
Thanks for sharing this workaround. It seems like it could really help some other Community members. I've tried to reproduce on Mac and it appears to work a little different, I was able to copy and paste a list of all folders, but not the files inside. I wonder has anyone else figured out a workaround for Mac yet? Please let us know if you have!
Thanks again, and have a great day!
Graham
Hi All, 😉
For those of you wanting to print files/folders list of particular Dropbox page and not "afraid" of typing a line of code there is a simple solution:
- Navigate to the page/list you want to print. Here you may want to align table columns for better page fit.
- Open the browser console - something specific to different browsers (usually labeled as Tools, Developer Tools, etc.)
- Copy/paste in the console prompt following line:
document.body.style="overflow: visible !important; height: fit-content";table=$(".brws-files-view-list");document.body.innerHTML="";document.body.append(table)
- At the end just print the resulting list.
For longer list, you may need to repeat above steps more than once and print page by page while aligning the content.
Good luck.
Hello.
Is there a way to pint a list view of all of the file directories from a web browser?
Thank you
- Jay
Dropbox Staff
Hi Joseph C.23, currently, there isn't a method to do so via the Dropbox site.
There may be other apps or services that might be able to extract a list of folders on your account.
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