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Can I download my Dropbox files to a USB?

I have a paid "Plus" version of Dropbox subscription.

I have around 262Gb of files on my Dropbox in a complex set of directories.

I need to download all of them inc the directory structures to a 2Tb USB.

PS I have already set the option of "available offline" for all these files so they are all on my local HDD.

Problem is there are a few disk issues on my PC and running normal local backups from this HDD are always a fail with an empty result on the USB.

I just want to get these files directly from Dropbox.

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Rich

@johnlink wrote:
I have around 262Gb of files on my Dropbox in a complex set of directories. I need to download all of them inc the directory structures to a 2Tb USB. ... I just want to get these files directly from Dropbox.

You can certainly download them from Dropbox, but it would be a manual process through the Dropbox website. You wouldn't be able to download them all at once. You can download a folder and it will be compressed into a Zip file, but the folder needs to be less than 20GB with fewer than 10,000 files. You'll need to download your full set of file in multiple downloads.

https://help.dropbox.com/sync/download-entire-folders

Jay

Hi @johnlink, thanks for messaging the Community!

Is this a one-off download of the files to the external drive, or would it be a continuous syncing of files to that drive?

This will help me to assist further!