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Small tip if you want to print a list of files in a Dropbox folder!

I've been trying to figure out if there is a way to print a list of files in a Dropbox folder. Turns out there is no such printing option. However, if you select all files with Ctrl + A, all subfolders and files will be selected. Then using Ctrl + C, copy to the clipboard. Next open a new blank Word document and paste (Ctrl +V) to the Word page. All text should appear from the Dropbox webpage. Delete whatever text is not relevant and you'll be left with a list of folders and files.

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Hannah

Thanks for the tip here, @cengelma!

I moved your post to the relevant board, so other users can see your suggestion.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Joseph C.23

Hello.

Is there a way to pint a list view of all of the file directories from a web browser?

Thank you

Jay

Hi @Joseph C.23, currently, there isn't a method to do so via the Dropbox site.

There may be other apps or services that might be able to extract a list of folders on your account.

Joseph C.23

Wonderful...

Thank you.

Amy

Hi @Joseph C.23, if you don't mind, can I ask why you want to print the filenames? I would be in favour of a screenshot for posterity myself, but as noted above, @cengelma found a way to create a word doc. That is a few more steps than I would take, if it's just to have a record, but if you need to be able to copy/paste, that might solve your problem!

Joseph C.23

Hi Amy,

We don't have all of our Dropbox files syncing on one computer/server, only some files.

We simply wanted to see a list of everything, at least in the main directory so we can clean up the files. One cannot even make decent print views from the web to achieve this.

Thank you.

Amy

Ah thanks for clarifying @Joseph C.23. I don't think I have a solution for you about this right now, but I will certainly flag it to the team. I am really interested in how different teams use Dropbox, so this has been enlightening. Thank you!

jlrgentry

I know this is an old question but I still have this issue and have found a workaround to share:
For me there is far too much data to sync it locally, so it has to be from the browser interface.

1. Select a file folder at random
2. Choose "Copy"
3. The popup dialog that appears gives you the option to choose a folder to copy it into. From this popup, at least in Chrome, I'm able to highlight all the files in that folder by just holding down the mouse to select and drag.
4. Open a word file - paste. All the file names are pasted into a list, separated by line breaks. From here I can import to excel or google sheets and do whatever I need to sort/track/search.
Hope that helps anyone!

Graham

Hi @jlrgentry,

Thanks for sharing this workaround. It seems like it could really help some other Community members. I've tried to reproduce on Mac and it appears to work a little different, I was able to copy and paste a list of all folders, but not the files inside. I wonder has anyone else figured out a workaround for Mac yet? Please let us know if you have!

Thanks again, and have a great day!

Graham

Здравко

Hi All, 😉

For those of you wanting to print files/folders list of particular Dropbox page and not "afraid" of typing a line of code there is a simple solution:

Navigate to the page/list you want to print. Here you may want to align table columns for better page fit.
Open the browser console - something specific to different browsers (usually labeled as Tools, Developer Tools, etc.)

Copy/paste in the console prompt following line:

document.body.style="overflow: visible !important; height: fit-content";table=$(".brws-files-view-list");document.body.innerHTML="";document.body.append(table)

At the end just print the resulting list.

For longer list, you may need to repeat above steps more than once and print page by page while aligning the content.

Good luck.

Graham

Hey @Здравко,

This is great, I'm sure this will be really helpful for some of our more tech-savvy Community members. Thanks for sharing!

Have a great day!

Graham

Здравко

Hi @Graham,

No so helpful, unfortunately. The methods described here (including the one from me, but not only) are convenient for relatively short lists (up to 25~30 entries sometimes or more - depending on your screen size and its orientation). Dropbox site design drops significant part of all invisible entries from the list when it's longer. Would be a good idea in print mode that page to keep all records (temporary at least) - so longer lists to be possible. This is matter of design decision though. Current site design makes long list printing (even with workaround) inconvenient!

Hope this will gives some ideas for improvements.