How do I export photos from Dropbox to my computer?
There is really not an "Export" process for this, you can simply copy them using the Dropbox app or download them using the Dropbox web site.Dropbox App MethodYou'll need to ensure you have the Dropbox app installed on your computer, which will sync with your Dropbox account and all of it's contents, including the Photos folder.Once your Dropbox account is completely sync'ed, you can simply drag the photos from the "Photos" folder in your Dropbox folder to your computer to copy them.Web MethodLog into Dropbox using your account credentials.Navigate to the Photos folder.Select the photos you wish, then click the "Download" button at the top of the list. If you need to select multiple photos, hold down the Shift key for a continuous selection, or the Command-key (Mac) for a discontiguous selection. You can also "Select All" to download all of them.
How do you best transfer Dropbox files to Google drive for free?
I use MultCloud. It’s the best tool for this purpose.It can download directly from the web and it can also transfer the file from one cloud storage like dropbox to another like google drive.It supports more than 20 cloud storages. I usually paste the URL of big files to this and it downloads the file for me. And unlike other such services, it never fails or times out to download the file. I have linked my google drive to it so that it transfers my files to google drive so that I can always have a backup of the file. When you're downloading big files and you have a very slow internet connection, this tools turns out to be immensely helpful. You can link more than one drive if you want to. It gives you 10TB of free space on a free account. I have tried some other such services like PCloud that the other guy mentioned but the downloading fails if I put more than one file at a time. but here you can put so many files and still it doesn't fail to download because it downloads one file at a time and saves it to the google drive. You can download your files at a later occasion at your convenience from google drive or any other drive using IDM or any other downloader and the link will never expire since you're downloading from your own cloud storages. Hope it helps.
Best photosharing - good alternative to DropBox?
You should try out "MEGA" at https://www.mega.co.nz/ as they offer 50GB free storage, so plenty space to store big photos. There's also an option to add "Contacts" and allow others to access certain folders and what not like Dropbox, just better. Furthermore, the service is placed completely outside any US law, so all your files will only be viewed by those you wish to view them, and not FBI, which they can with your files on your Dropbox if they really wish to. Oh, and all the files are encrypted, so you, and the ones you share the files with, are the only one that can see what type of file it is, and what the file is etc. And probably the best thing about it is the upload speed. It's a rabbit compared to Dropbox, which would probably be a turtle.Basically, it's offers a way faster upload, and download speed than Dropbox. Only downside at the moment, is that there isn't a dedicated desktop client for Mac/Windows, but they are working on it, and it should be out shortly.
Why is Dropbox so slow at uploading files?
Dropbox desktop sync app is designed to sync files in the background. In most cases, users don’t care about the upload / download speed as long as their files are synced in reasonable amount of time.If you manually select a few files to upload/download, then Dropbox is not the best tool; its user interface is not designed for that. You can use an FTP client such as FileZilla or DriveHQ FileManager for that purpose.I cannot tell if Dropbox has a speed problem in uploading files. In most cases, it is normal, or caused by other issues, e.g.:If your download speed is fast, but upload is slow, it is usually because Cable Modem / ADSL connections are asymmetric. The download bandwidth is usually 5–10 times bigger than upload bandwidth;If your upload bandwidth is 5Mbps, and you can upload at 600KB/s, it is totally normal as 1 B (byte) = 8 b (bit).If your upload bandwidth is 100 Mbps, and you can only upload at 2–4MB/s, it is usually normal. Note the maximum speed is dependent on the slowest link between your computer and the cloud server. To achieve your maximum speed, you need a dedicated 1 Gbps connection from your computer to the cloud server. With a shared Internet connection, 2–4 MB/s upload speed is normal (in 2017).Of course if you can only upload at less than 200 KB/s for an extended amount of time, you should compare it with other cloud services. FTP clients (like FileZilla) can be used as a good benchmark; if you use DriveHQ’s FTP Hosting / Cloud Storage service, then you can use DriveHQ FileManager client software. FileManager is optimized for best performance.
How can dropbox files be saved directly to Google Drive without downloading and reuploading?
I use MultCloud. It’s the best tool for this purpose.It can download directly from the web and it can also transfer the file from one cloud storage like dropbox to another like google drive.It supports more than 20 cloud storages. I usually paste the URL of big files to this and it downloads the file for me. And unlike other such services, it never fails or times out to download the file. I have linked my google drive to it so that it transfers my files to google drive so that I can always have a backup of the file. When you're downloading big files and you have a very slow internet connection, this tools turns out to be immensely helpful. You can link more than one drive if you want to. It gives you 10TB of free space on a free account. I have tried some other such services like PCloud that the other guy mentioned but the downloading fails if I put more than one file at a time. but here you can put so many files and still it doesn't fail to download because it downloads one file at a time and saves it to the google drive. You can download your files at a later occasion at your convenience from google drive or any other drive using IDM or any other downloader and the link will never expire since you're downloading from your own cloud storages. Hope it helps.