download from dropbox to external hard drive

Let Dropbox move your folder and its contents to the new location.

Select the new location for your Dropbox folder.

Click Move… (Windows and Linux), or Dropbox location (Mac).

Close any applications on your computer that may be using your Dropbox files and folders, and disable your computer backup.

If you have any syncing issues after moving the Dropbox folder to a new location, visit this article. If you’re running low, learn how you can free up disk space.

You need some disk space (hard drive space) to move the Dropbox folder.

If Dropbox doesn’t support the extended attributes (additional metadata) attached to your files, they’re not stored in Dropbox, so they won’t move with your Dropbox folder.

Dropbox doesn’t support certain types of files and metadata like symlinks, aliases, shortcuts, junction points, resource forks, and networked folders.

Not using Dropbox yet? See how Dropbox helps you effortlessly share folders. In case you regularly use DropboxPortableAHK and it makes your life easier, please consider a donation.This article explains how you can move the Dropbox folder to a different location on your computer with your Dropbox preferences.

Please check out the Microsoft documentation for more information about formatting a drive. Please make a copy of all your data on the thumb drive before formatting it, because formatting will erase all data. Unfortunately, it looks like Dropbox will not change this behavior, so the only way to keep using DropboxPortableAHK on your thumb drive is to make sure it is formatted as NTFS. This issue is also mentioned in the Dropbox Help and raised hundreds of complaints in their own forums. If you use DropboxPortableAHK on such a drive, Dropbox will display the following error:

However, some USB thumb drives are formatted as FAT32 or exFAT. If you are using DropboxPortableAHK on an internal hard drive, it is most likely already formatted as NTFS and everything works fine. Since a few days, Dropbox requires its syncing folder to be on a compatible file system, which at the moment is only NTFS on Windows.

Download from dropbox to external hard drive