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Upload entire folders to Dropbox
I'm trying to upload a folder and all of its subfolders to Dropbox (actually I have a bunch to move, but I'm just trying to do one for now). The folder has multiple subfolders and each subfolder of course has files in it. Recreating every single folder and subfolder for everything on my computer that I need to upload is not an option since it would be an extremely tedious and time consuming project.
My intention is to upload all of the desired folders to Dropbox, then delete them from my computer and sync all of them so that I can access them from most anywhere.
How do I handle this?
It seems that this is not the fault of Dropbox. The fault seems to be with Firefox and other browsers (with the exception of Chrome). Also, same thing happens in Google Drive, can only drag and drop / upload folders there successfully with Chrome. According to the following website, http://superuser.com/questions/909112/does-firefox-support-folder-upload , Firefox is aware of this bug, and has been testing fixes with nightly beta trials. Hope this helps...
Seriously i can't freaking believe have hard this is... i bought Dropbox because i thought is was going to be easier but you cannot, upload a folder with multiple subfolders. I literally spent 8 F******* hours organizing in my external so that i can simply "DROP" my F****** file in here. I'm so disappointed.
can you share how you did it? I have the same question.
It seems to only work with Crome. You can drag and drop a folder via the Crome Web Browser and it will upload a folder. If you do it via Safari or Firefox, it will not work. It took me forever to figure it out.
It seems that this is not the fault of Dropbox. The fault seems to be with Firefox and other browsers (with the exception of Chrome). Also, same thing happens in Google Drive, can only drag and drop / upload folders there successfully with Chrome. According to the following website, http://superuser.com/questions/909112/does-firefox-support-folder-upload , Firefox is aware of this bug, and has been testing fixes with nightly beta trials. Hope this helps...
- I was also able to use Opera to drag and drop / upload folders. In summary, Opera yes, Chrome yes, Firefox no, Internet Explorer no.
- Anybody try this with Safari? I don't have a Mac / iPhone to try it myself.
I've spent days trying to figure this out. No information anywhere that I can find. I ended up deleting dropbox. It should not be this complicated. Even their help information doesn't tell you how to do it. I have installed the desktop app again. Nothing changes. It still won't work. Anybody know what to do? This has not been a very active thread. I find that very discouraging.
Like David W. I have numerous files with complex subfolders on external hard drives that I would like to have available on dropbox. I do not have sufficient storage available on my local drive to drag and drop the files into dropbox and I cannot get another computer for that purpose. From what I have read it appears that drop box is not able to upload multiple folders from external drives via dropbox.com. Does this mean that the only way to move my folders (hundreds of folders and subfolders) would be to spend hours manually recreating the file structures on dropbox.com?
This thread was started 17 months ago and still Dropbox has not added this feature. With all the backup and cloud solutions that currently exist, I am surprised that Dropbox is content with being passed over. I began using dropbox when my raid0 hard drive started to go. I couldn't depend on it so I had to manually upload every single important file, many of which were in folders. In the past 17 months (no, I can't afford other drives; bit by bit I have purchased externals when I could afford them) I have probably wasted weeks of time working with dropbox.
I'm hoping to be in a position to purchase a new computer in the next few months. If Dropbox has not updated its functionality by then, I will be looking elsewhere. I'm sure others have done so as well.
I have about 250Gg in multiple folders on an external hard drive . I want to upload all folder/files to drop box (i have a 1TB account). I cannot drop them in my Laptop dropbox folder because I do not have enough space . how can i drop these folder into Dropbox online??
Tom_HSuper User alumni
Place the folders, in the Dropbox folder on your computer, they will be uploaded just like individual files.
Due to a miserably slow upload link I cannot use dropbox synch feature so I have to manually upload files I want and cannot find a way to do that.
