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rotzooi's avatar
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... 

 

Did anyone come up with a nifty solution to this problem?

  • 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.

     

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II

    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.

     

    • qqq1's avatar
      qqq1
      Helpful | Level 5

      Rich by "select all the files in the folder", did you mean to say "to see number of files in a folder, you need to click every one of them individually"? How is that an answer?

      I must be misunderstanding something here, can you explain?

      • Walter's avatar
        Walter
        Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

        Can you not click the box to the left of the 'Name' header when navigating your file-structure qqq1?

         

        While we're at it, kindly note that you could also use the 'Ctrl+A' shortcut when in a folder of yours to select all the files within it.

         

        I hope this helps!

    • natlipson's avatar
      natlipson
      New member | Level 2

      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.

  • Lady Di's avatar
    Lady Di
    New member | Level 2

    Thank you for welcoming me into the DB community.

     

    I am a photographer so I mainly use Dropbox to back up all photos and videos.  Is there a way to see the numbers of photos and vids I've backed up in Dropbox?

  • yoyoyo8's avatar
    yoyoyo8
    New member | Level 2

    How do I determine how many files are contained in a folder on Dropbox?   Manually counting the number will take too long.   Is there a counter showing the number of files?   Many thanks.

      • Ann L.3's avatar
        Ann L.3
        New member | Level 2

        While the suggested techniques works to calculate the size of the folder and the number of items (folders within that folder), it does not calclate the number of total files in the main folder when there are sub folders. For example I want to know howmany jpg files I have an a particular travel itinerary, but for organizational purposes, I put each day's photos in a subfolder by date. I can't find any way to calulate the total number of files without having the folder sync to my desktop and then locating the information through my operating system OR opening each sub folder, calculating the number of files and repeating this for each sub folder and then adding those sub totals. There should be a way to do this in Dropbox if it is easy to do in in my desktop folder, especially when users are encouraged to keep folders online.

  • pkelly's avatar
    pkelly
    Helpful | Level 5

    No matter how the question is posed, the standard replies are:

    1. use the Dropbox folder on your PC, and then you can use your PC to find out. Problem solved. (The problem is the website of course!)

    2. Using the website? Then do a CTRL-A and you'll see the number of folders top right. Problem Solved. (Come on!)

    There is never a simple answer to what people want to know, i.e. how can we find the number of files in a folder including ALL SUBFOLDERS? (This is something people commonly do in a simple way with Windows, i.e ight click on a folder, select Properties.)

    Can you find this information in Dropbox?

    • Rich's avatar
      Rich
      Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II

      pkelly wrote:

      No matter how the question is posed, the standard replies are:


      Because those are your only options. There is no feature to get a file count using the Dropbox website.

  • TFlash's avatar
    TFlash
    Explorer | Level 3

    There is no way to tell how many files in a folder. It would be nice to be able to tell if all 250 images uploaded correctly by looking at how many are in the folder.

    • Rich's avatar
      Rich
      Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II

      TFlash wrote:

      There is no way to tell how many files in a folder. It would be nice to be able to tell if all 250 images uploaded correctly by looking at how many are in the folder.


      Select all the files in the folder, and the number of selected files appears on teh right side of the page.

       

       

       

      • jackcalling's avatar
        jackcalling
        New member | Level 2

        I would just like what you offer to work better.  Look at what I get.  I can guess that it might be 365 or 385.  But the presentation of this data is useless when I'm trying to ensure all files are uploaded before I delete from my PC.

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