Hi. I can no longer afford the monthly fee, but have 26gb of files. Please can you advise how I can do a bulk download perhaps multiple zip.files rather than individual downloads?Many thanks
To download all of your Dropbox files go to Dropbox web - https://www.dropbox.com/home You can split the data in few separate folders (so that in case a download fails during long downloads, you don't have to start from the beginning). Then you can download folders one by one.
It will download zip of each folder. Each folder should not be more than 20GB, or contain more than 10,000 files - https://help.dropbox.com/sync/download-entire-folders
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How can I select more than one folder to download all at once?
Hi @Sarah B.83, thanks for messaging the Community!
If you select the folders you want to download from the left by selecting the checkboxes, then you should get a Download option on the top right.
As mentioned above, the folders selected shouldn't contain more than 10,000 files or be over 20 GB in total.
Let me know how it goes!
So, "No," then, right?Because making it easy to move your files makes the product less sticky. So screw the user experience and keep those autorenew payments coming, amirite?
@AndSoOn
Or do as the product intended and download and install Dropbox on your device and let it all download in one go without any human input at all. Remember that the whole point of Dropbox by design is to use it via the software from www.dropbox.com/downloading. The website is only intended to be used when people do not have access to their computers
I don't think the OP specified a particular client. But thanks for suggesting the app, I'll try that.
And I thank you Dropbox for your service, you were there for me when hard drives were expensive and internet speeds were getting fast. But I've spent way too much on you now and just want to copy all my files down to my $80 4TB hard drive now.
@Mark wrote: Or do as the product intended and download and install Dropbox on your device and let it all download in one go without any human input at all. Remember that the whole point of Dropbox by design is to use it via the software from www.dropbox.com/downloading. The website is only intended to be used when people do not have access to their computers
This will not work. In my experience over the years using Dropbox on different platforms, the clients are not reliable enough to do this with large amounts of data. Things will be missing or corrupted. In normal use cases this is probably fine, because the client can make you wait while it retrieves another copy.
Dropbox does not provide a sensible way to retrieve your data. Your best bet is to trust some third party tool that hooks into the API.
How about when Dropbox sync stops working a year ago and nothing their support staff tries fixes it and you just want to download your files and move on?
Why would you limit downloads to 20G? particularly when the space I have is 2T?
I think we have to download them folder by folder as per my knowledge. If there is a way please let me know as well.
I have the same issue. I have over 3TB of data and now cannot afford the subscription. Dropbox is forcing me to download 20 GB at a time - except I have a few files that are over this size and there's no way to download them.
I think it's fair to say that my data is being held, hostage.
Yes, this is ridiculous what Dropbox does. I'm trying to get my files out of Dropbox; not because I can't afford it, but (despite only using 60% of my 2TB of data), it won't sync with a new computer. Support say's it's because I have too many files. This happened to me a couple of years ago - and, after spending a lot of effort doing this - I maned to zip folders to decrease the number of files. I would have thought this problem would have been worked out by now (2023), but it's not. Just as a warning to everyone, you syncing on new devices will stop when you exceed the file limit (the support person said 300,000 files) even if you are way under the total file storage limit. So, dropbox might be OK to store zip archives, it doesn't work well with a real set of folders with varied length files.
Hi Jay,
Have you improved upon this in the past 3 years?
My data is in various states of online/offline and I would like to create a local backup to an external drive of my entire dropbox drive, should there ever be any issues on your end with my data, or with syncing. I'm sure you've done your best to prevent them, but failures occur.
This process seems archaic and entirely tedious and an intentional friction point to ensure user retention—it's kinda gross. Can you please advise if you have an actual, reasonable solution to this thread's original question?
Thanks,
B
Hi @benjaminjess, there haven't been any new updates which could help in relation to this matter, nor are there any workarounds that we can offer.
There's a reason you've got 20 likes (including mine) it's really frustrating not being able to bulk download all files... It's like all of them are being held hostage. Dropbox : GoogleDrive-fear-much?
It's still not possible to bulk download all files, the desktop apps only syncs. Plus, I've found a virus that resides on dropbox cache even if I have cleaned my whole system, it still shows the virus in dropbox cache... (and yes, I have deleted all files locally in dropbox cache... it's like the virus is online in dropbox, and everytime it syncs, I get the virus on my pc again...)
@ainmo wrote: Plus, I've found a virus that resides on dropbox cache ...
Plus, I've found a virus that resides on dropbox cache ...
It's likely a false positive due to the way files are chunked and stored prior to syncing. It's best to add the .dropbox.cache folder to your antivirus exclusions list. If it was an actual virus, your antivirus would still pick it up in the Dropbox folder when the file is fully synced and reassembled.
