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How to manually copy my files to a local drive
Except for a few sensitive documents, Dropbox is my default storage location, partly to use some data across Mac and Windows computers such as text notes and manuals, and partly to spare some compute...
Nancy
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThanks for posting your question here, paul1755!
You can definitely do that. When downloading files/folders via your Dropbox web account (which has the 250GB download limit), you can select the destination folder to be your external hard drive.
The files you’ll download in bulk will be exported as a .zip file, which you can then manually unzip in your external hard drive.
Another option, if you'd like to copy your Dropbox files via the desktop app instead, would be make sure everything is available offline within your local Dropbox folder, and then copy them to your external drive, like you'd do with any other file on your computer.
If there’s something else you need help with, I’ll be right here.
