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Larry M.'s avatar
Larry M.
New member | Level 2
11 years ago

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 t...
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  • Tony W.16's avatar
    Tony W.16
    9 years ago

    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

     

    :)

     

     

Sherry L.4's avatar
Sherry L.4
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

Hi John B.

Go to your Dropbox folder on your computer. Make sure all of the pics/docs that you want to keep are still there. Then, Go to the folder where you usually put all of your photos on your hard drive (PC or Mac) and make a sub folder called whatever you want like: my dropbox keepers, or whatever. Mine is just "Pictures>DB" on my mac. If you are running windows, then probably MyPhotos>Dropbox keepers. Just name it anything you like.

1. go back to Dropbox folder, select all>copy

2. go to the new folder you just created on your harddrive, highlight the folder name>paste.

Now you can delete everything from Dropbox cloud. I highly recommend that you do a few test samples of photos you don't care about.

Good luck!

Sherry

 

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