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adelaidesean's avatar
adelaidesean
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

download from cloud to external drive

Questions like this have been asked before, but I haven't found an answer yet. My apologies if I missed something.   I am going to Antarctica for a year, and my access to the internet will not be...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    3 years ago

    The only way to do that is to manually download via the website and save it manually to the drive (as in select each file or folder and choose the download location as the external drive)

MattHeck's avatar
MattHeck
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

I just searched around, and found lots of terrible solutions, until I realized a very easy solve. In Chrome, or Safari go to Preferences / Downloads / and change the download location to your external hard drive. Done. 

Anything you download will now go directly to the folder you chose on the external hard drive. Not just Dropbox, but everything. So make sure to change it back when you're done.  Or not. As ya wish.

Come on thumbs up, gimme gimme. I don't usually write these things. Cheers!

  • PaulZissa's avatar
    PaulZissa
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago

    Thank you! It works! 

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