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Cloudie
Explorer | Level 4
3 months ago

How can I download a big folder to my external HDD on Mac?

Peace to all!   I was able to transfer the Dropbox app to my new external hard drive formatted and connected to my Mac, but now I am struggling to download a big folder from my account webpage. I...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    3 months ago
    @Cloudie wrote:

    ... I am struggling to download a big folder from my account webpage.

    If you have the Dropbox application installed on your computer, are you not able to sync the folder normally, instead of downloading it manually?

     

    If I try to select all the files and hit download I get an error message saying it can't zip that much. I also can't do it in batches because there are a zillion video clips.

    If the folder is too large to Zip, you'll have to download it in batches. There's no other way.

     

    Downloading a folder will always result in a Zip file, but there are limits to how big a folder can be when downloading it as a Zip. Before being compressed the folder must be less than 250GB with fewer than 10,000 files. There's no way to directly download a folder from the Dropbox website without it being Zipped first.

Cloudie's avatar
Cloudie
Explorer | Level 4

Peace to all

I was able to download my folder to the DB app on my external drive, but there's a discrepancy in the number of files

(955 online vs 1, 244 on hdd).

I would like to understand what happened, and if there are doubles, and how I can locate them.

Could anyone please help me with this?

Thanks,

Robert

 

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Nancy
Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
3 months ago

Cloudie, can you send over a couple of screenshots showing what you see online and on the Dropbox app? I’d like to have a visual and go from there.

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