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how do I transfer photos from dropbox to my computer and delete them from my dropbox?
I want to move all my photos/files from dropbox to an external hard drive, remove them from my dropbox without delete any photos by mistake or anything. This is to organize my photos and files properly, so I can use my dropbox as a temporarily back up for my more recent photos which is why I wanted to use dropbox as in the first place!
There are several photos on my dropbox that doesn't show in my dropbox-app for my pc but I have a lot of old pictures there and I don't want to delete them, only remove them from dropbox and keep them on my computer. I have approximately 231 recent photos(on my phone) that I can't save on my dropbox because I don't have enough space. But I don't want to upgrade since I don't really need that much space. I just want to transfer them to an external hard drive via my computer.
I'm not good in English, but I hope someone understand what I want to do and can help me!
Hello everyone,
To download all the files you have stored in your Dropbox safely , you can do it either by using the Dropbox app on your computer or by downloading the mmanually on the website.
Using the Dropbox app:
Once you install the Dropbox app on your computer and the syncing is complete, you can unlink Dropbox from your device. Then you can move your Dropbox folder and store it wherever you want and do permanent changes to your computer that do not sync back to the website.
Download from www.dropbox.com
You can download the entire contents of a folder from dropbox.com in a ZIP file.
Note: It's not possible to use dropbox.com to download an entire folder that's over 1 GB or that has over 10,000 files
Additionally, If you run out of Dropbox space, there are a few things you can do to get more!
Thanks! :slight_smile:
- Dropbox takes up no more storage (bar the install files of a 100mb or so?) than the files you have stored on it articangel333 - because they are simply in a folder like all others
This note is for Skills F. December 22, 2015 14:19 post.
I followed your instructions and all worked perfectly. Once I moved my photos and looked at the steps it all made sense.
Thanks for the help
An easier solution for Mac users. When you see the folder of your photos in the Dropbox home page list, don't click on the folder, click on a blank space in the same line. This will bring up a menu bar at the top of that home page list. Click Open from the menu bar.
A window will open for Mac users(I am using a MacBook Pro) with that folder and the photos in it. Draw a box around all of the photos to select them. Drag and drop them into Photos on Mac(by having Photos already open in another window). They will copy the photos automatically. Wait until they are all there it takes a minute especially if there are any videos.
I downloaded pictures from my mobile to my laptop and they went directly to dropbox without my knowledge.
I managed to save the pictures very painfully on the hard drive of my laptop into zip files, following the advice found on this forum. Still, I cannot unzip the pictures and any attempt I have made to copy them causes windows explorer to crash and restart. The same happens if I try to download the pictures again from the mobile into the laptop by accessing the mobile as any other external hard drive and copying the pictures as done with any file (normal copy & paste), or from the dropbox folder in my laptop to any other folder.
Obviously dropbox is causing the problem as this has never occurred to me before.
I'd like to know:
1) How to resolve this apparent conflict between dropbox and windows explorer
2) How to make sure that my pictures do not get uploaded from my mobile onto dropbox unless I really want to
Thanks
Its nice to know that other people have these types of problems. But there have been a lot of answers on this forum and I am hoping that with a bit of time and luck, this will all work out. (Its makes me think that the days of taking a roll of film out of a camera, going along and getting it developed and printed at the camera dealer, and getting as many prints as you wanted, wasn't so difficult after all, even if you had to wait a couple of days!) Thanks for the support.
Because I was running out of room in my Dropbox account, I put all my photos into files and then moved the files to a flash drive. I then deleted all those photos in Dropbox and started over with a blank slate. Now I can use the flashdrive to download pics anywhere I want.
It appears to me that we are all guilty of thinking of DROPBOX as multiple locations. There is only one DROPBOX, folks. It's floating in the ether so it services your phone and your computers no matter how many or wherever they may be. I am in the process of emailing my downloaded grandbaby pictures to my computer -- where I will not put them in Dropbox. I will put them in a computer folder. I attach about 8 pictures, address the yahoo message to myself and hit send and do it again and again, but then my pictures are on the phone in the gallery and I can use that to attach them to emails and they are safe in the folders on the laptop and the external photos only thumbdrive.....that's another step, but it's a click and drag easy step.
- Mark
Super User II
Kate - why not just download the desktop client and let Dropbox do what its supposed to do - download everything instantly from the cloud to folders on your machine?
- That doesn't help if you want to transfer your photos from drop box to your computer so you can delete Dropbox. Dropbox takes up a lot of storage!!
- MarkDropbox takes up no more storage (bar the install files of a 100mb or so?) than the files you have stored on it articangel333 - because they are simply in a folder like all others
Folks....emailing from the phone to yourself with several photos attached from your phone's gallery so you can download and save the photos on a laptop or in a thumb drive really works. It took awhile to transfer the first 100 or so photos, but now I do a mail over about twice a week. I left those photos in drop box just for backup....I just collected them into a folder.
It took me a long time to figure this out. I had about 4K pictures. All you need to do is open one window for dropbox folders and another for your local drive and download each folder (will probably load as a Zip) and then just drag the zip file into your local drive.
Shirley I tried that what you suggested but I cant get it . what a nightmare for such a easy task -(
- I am so frustrated with the same problem u r talking about.
Do u forsee a resolution really happening?
Thanks!
Pam KOk, here is the answer to being able to download items from dropbox to your computer. I have gone into detail in order to be helpful to everyone but especially the novices. But actually the process is quite easy. First, create or select any folder where you want your downloaded dropbox files, pictures, videos to be located, open it up and drag it to the far right of your desktop. When you signed up for dropbox a little icon was placed in the lower right of your desktop next to the clock, (at least in windows it is). The icon is five little diamonds with the fifth one at the bottom of the five. You can either right click or left click on this icon which will bring up a small window with four icons at the top of the window. If you hover your mouse over the second from the left icon which looks like a little folder it will show the words "open dropbox folder". Click on this little folder icon and all your folders in dropbox will show up. Click and open whichever folder you choose and now you can select any item either individually or select them all by clicking on the first one then holding down the shift key and clicking on the last one. Finally, right click somewhere on all your highlighted items and without letting up your finger, drag them all to your previously selected folder on your computer. Now you may choose either to copy or move the items. Presto Zippo !!! If you chose "move" your problem is solved and your pictures or whatever are now on your computer and NOT in Dropbox any longer. Now breathe a sigh of relief and go and be nice to someone else. :sunglasses:
Just double click the image on dropbox website. It will open the image. Right click on image and it will give you download option.
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