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Offline archives on micro SD external card on Android device

Good morning, I recently bought an Android e-ink reader, and the internal storage is only 64GB, which isn't very much. It has a microSD card slot (up to 1TB), and I'd like offline files to be downloaded to the card, as the device has quite limited storage capacity and I'll be using large PDF files with audio. Any ideas on how to do this? Thank you very much.

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Walter

Hi there @juanvarela69 - thanks for using Dropbox and welcome to our Community!

The Dropbox mobile app doesn't really store your Dropbox files on your mobile devices, it's mostly for viewing your files.

That said, you should be able to export (or download) your files to your preferred location normally if needed.

I hope this helps a tad and please let me know if you have any other questions.

juanvarela69

Hi! Thanks for your fast reply.

But how it's possible to see and modify (as I can do now) on my tablet without WiFi or 5g, if the archives are not downloaded? What I want to do is to make offline a folder very heavy without using internal storage, justbusing micro sd card without moving archives, just say to Dropbox "I want offline downloads here". Sorry for my english.

Thanks again

Walter

So you'd like to achieve something similar to what's discussed here. Am I right @juanvarela69?

If you find that offline files won't work for you, you can download or export them directly to your micro SD card via the Dropbox mobile app or the website.

juanvarela69

Yes Walter. It's a shame that Dropbox can't do this natively, but your solution has worked.

Thank you very much

Hannah

Thanks for your feedback here, @juanvarela69.

I've passed it along to our team and if you need anything else, let us know.

Have a great day!