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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 t...
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
:)
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?
