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How to move photos and files out of dropbox and on to my PC
I recently set up my Ipad and Iphone to upload photos to my dropbox account. This has resulted in my dropbox account being full. I do not need all of these photos backed up in dropbox nor do I need to access them from my dropbox account. I would like to move them to a folder on my Pc (running Vista). That way they will be available in the future should I need them, but will not be taking up space in my dropbox account. But I can't figure out how to do this. In the help knowledge base it tells my how to remove them from dropbox, but then says this does not remove them from my account. So bottom line. How does one reduce the number of photos (files) to allow future uploads to Dropbox? The photos are also in the carousel?
Hi guys,
I just got notified that the "good will" extra data will be going on my account soon. So I have found out how to MOVE your files from DBox to your pc. Obvoiusly this will depend on how much Hard drive space you have and how much space you are using in Dbox.
1) open exporer then find your dropbox folder.
2) open a second explorer by right clicking the explorer icon and opening another window.
3) in the 2nd window find the folder on your pc that you want to move your stuff to.
4) Select everything in your dropbox folder by single clicking the fist file/folder the going to the last file/folder and with the SHIFT key pressed click the last file/folder.
5) RIGHT click on any of the selected files and drag then to the folder you want to move them to.
6) when the menu appears select MOVE.
Depending on how many file/folders and their sizes it could take a bit of time, but the end result is your folders/files are now on your pc. You can even watch this happening by logging into your Dropbox on the web and see them disappearing.
Hope this helps. It took me a while to finally find this through experimenting. lol
:)
looking for the same answer, Larry M.
and I'm getting frustated ( probably like you are..)
there seems to be no simple method for downloading files, and then freeing up space?I would like to get pictures out of my Dropbox so I can use them in other files. How do I do that with deleting them or them going some place I can not find them... I have windows 10 and an on a hp laptop.
Faye
Hi guys,
I just got notified that the "good will" extra data will be going on my account soon. So I have found out how to MOVE your files from DBox to your pc. Obvoiusly this will depend on how much Hard drive space you have and how much space you are using in Dbox.
1) open exporer then find your dropbox folder.
2) open a second explorer by right clicking the explorer icon and opening another window.
3) in the 2nd window find the folder on your pc that you want to move your stuff to.
4) Select everything in your dropbox folder by single clicking the fist file/folder the going to the last file/folder and with the SHIFT key pressed click the last file/folder.
5) RIGHT click on any of the selected files and drag then to the folder you want to move them to.
6) when the menu appears select MOVE.
Depending on how many file/folders and their sizes it could take a bit of time, but the end result is your folders/files are now on your pc. You can even watch this happening by logging into your Dropbox on the web and see them disappearing.
Hope this helps. It took me a while to finally find this through experimenting. lol
:)
This question is from a month ago and it doesn't appear that a reasonable answer has been posted. I am also wondering exactly how my dropbox space is being used and how I can free up space. I don't have a clue as to how I have used 16 Gb of space on dropbox. Also, I find the same photo in different lists, does that mean my photos are being stored more than once??
As laborious as it is, I've found the best way to synchronize when dealing with new computers, or losing "promo" space, or other issues is to turn off the "sync" of All Connected Items ( phones, tablets, PCs, i-Whatevs) then log onto the Dropbox website.
Download everything into a separate back-up location, if your computer is "sync complete" then you have all the items on your hard-drive. Copy them to another folder Not In Dropbox.
Then do the re-organizing and deleting you need on the Web Interface.
Remember, Dropbox, in an effort to appease the "I've foolishly deleted it, now I want it back...types" saves EveryThing that you have deleted in a cache for three days, and this saved space still counts as part of your total storage?
Once your content with what you still have in your Box, as shown in the on-line interface, turn sync back on.
Then wait... and check every Connected Item for conflicts.
I moved everything, well almost everything Out of my Box, then re-loaded files in small batches, to get my stuff organized and such.
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‘What Dropbox and its many competitors are ultimately selling is trust — after all, you’re giving them your data — and public relations are a big part of winning your business.’"To remove files from dropbox and save to your local or other storage drive in Windows 10, here's what worked for me. Find the folder you want to detach from dropbox, right click on the folder & select download. When the info pop up box at the bottom of the says it's finished downloading click "Open".this takes you to "This PC>Downloads>your file folder name. Right click on your file folder & drag it to where you want to store it. Then you can go back to dropbox & delete it from there. It's taken me months to figure this out in windows 10. Hope it saves someone else some time.
If you want the photos (or any files) completely out of DB and onto your desktop (I have a MAC but I'm sure there is a similar way for PC), open Finder and go into DB through Finder, from there, grab the folder or files you want and drag them to your desktop. I recently did this with vacation photos and I freed up 4GB.
I am running into the same problem a few of you had. My sister uploaded over 1000 photos into a sharing folder I had created a long time ago and so I ran out of space quite quickly. She has a TB so has no problems, I on the other hand only have 7.5gb. I received an email from DB indicating that it was no longer syncing any of the files.
Any who, I tried the download folder option suggested by Carol M on Dec 7 with no avail. A blank file ("unspecified") was the only thing that was downloaded. I then tried Sherry L's suggestion posted on Jan 14 and that did not work either. I am also on Win 10. When I tried to copy via the keyboard shortcut, it didn't work. I tried the copy option from DB but all it does is suggest an alternate folder to copy files to.
The question remains, how can we pull out all these files/photos out of dropbox given that it is not syncing with my PC or phone?
I just figured out how to do it. I am using MS10. Not sure if this works on any other version of MS. Here are the steps - it's really fast.
1. Open Explorer (you can click on the file icon on the bottom of your screen
2. Use your mouse to roll down to the Dropbox icon (in the left hand column of Explorer)
3. Select (left click once) the Dropbox icon to see the folders held in Dropbox
4. Right click the folder you want to move to your PC - a menu will appear with about 18 choices.
5. Use your mouse to roll down to the choice "Send to" and left click or hover over it - a new menu will appear with a number of choices (8 on my computer), including "Desk Top", "Documents", and "DVD".
6. Select (left click) the place you want the folder to be transferred to (e.g. "Desktop") and it executes the transfer.
7. Then find the folder (e.g. on your desktop and use your normal steps to move the folder or its contents to where you want them.
How do I upload/download/whatever photos from my camera directly into my pc (MsW7)without going through DropBox, which I don't want to use in every instance. I have copied photos from Dropbox into a folder on my pc but it is laborious and if this could be avoided, by avoiding DB altogether, I'd like that option.
