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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...
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
Super User II
Super User IIAre 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 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
Dropbox 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!
Walterthanks for the quick response.
1. When clicking the square next to folder name, it just shows a larger "folder" icon on the right side, nowhere does it show count of files in that folder; when clicking multiple such squares, it does show how many folders I have clicked, but not how many files they contain.
Am I supposed to see file count anywhere when clicking on a folder? Do I have some wrong/different interface from other users (I'm on a Business plan)?
2. Ctrl-A inside a folder does indeed select all items and show their count... but how does it answer the question? The question is, given a list of folders with arbitrary depth, how does one see number of files in those folders and all their subfolders (what "size" metric is applied to now, but count rather that size)?
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.
