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Hi. I can no longer afford the monthly fee, but have 26gb of files. Please can you advise how I can do a bulk download perhaps multiple zip.files rather than individual downloads?Many thanks
I think we have to download them folder by folder as per my knowledge. If there is a way please let me know as well.
I have the same issue. I have over 3TB of data and now cannot afford the subscription. Dropbox is forcing me to download 20 GB at a time - except I have a few files that are over this size and there's no way to download them.
I think it's fair to say that my data is being held, hostage.
Yes, this is ridiculous what Dropbox does. I'm trying to get my files out of Dropbox; not because I can't afford it, but (despite only using 60% of my 2TB of data), it won't sync with a new computer. Support say's it's because I have too many files. This happened to me a couple of years ago - and, after spending a lot of effort doing this - I maned to zip folders to decrease the number of files. I would have thought this problem would have been worked out by now (2023), but it's not. Just as a warning to everyone, you syncing on new devices will stop when you exceed the file limit (the support person said 300,000 files) even if you are way under the total file storage limit. So, dropbox might be OK to store zip archives, it doesn't work well with a real set of folders with varied length files.
Hi Jay,
Have you improved upon this in the past 3 years?
My data is in various states of online/offline and I would like to create a local backup to an external drive of my entire dropbox drive, should there ever be any issues on your end with my data, or with syncing. I'm sure you've done your best to prevent them, but failures occur.
This process seems archaic and entirely tedious and an intentional friction point to ensure user retention—it's kinda gross. Can you please advise if you have an actual, reasonable solution to this thread's original question?
Thanks,
B
Hi @benjaminjess, there haven't been any new updates which could help in relation to this matter, nor are there any workarounds that we can offer.
Jay
Community Moderator @ Dropbox
dropbox.com/support
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There's a reason you've got 20 likes (including mine) it's really frustrating not being able to bulk download all files... It's like all of them are being held hostage.
Dropbox : GoogleDrive-fear-much?
It's still not possible to bulk download all files, the desktop apps only syncs. Plus, I've found a virus that resides on dropbox cache even if I have cleaned my whole system, it still shows the virus in dropbox cache... (and yes, I have deleted all files locally in dropbox cache... it's like the virus is online in dropbox, and everytime it syncs, I get the virus on my pc again...)
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