Help with Dropbox

plainjane0415

Does anyone know how to get a shared file from dropbox to a folder on your computer?  Im seriously struggling over here. My photographer shared our e-pics through dropbox, and now I can't get them out of dropbox and onto my computer because it says I don't have enough space, which I do I have 164 GB of space on my computer. And until I empty the dropbox, my photographer can't send me the rest of the images (she had to split them up because I couldn't download all of them to the dropbox at once). HELP!

porkchops926

I'm not an expert but I think I found something online that sounds like your issue. I think the problem is with your allowed storage in your Dropbox account, not the computer.

http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/50955/sharing-dropbox-folder-friends-dont-have-enough-space-but-still-cant-see-con

EDIT: just found another one. If your Drop Box account doesn't have the same amount of storage as your photographer's, you will get a message saying you don't have enough space. 

http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/What-happens-if-I-dont-have-enough-space-for-a-new-folder-that-has-been-shared-with-me

vulpiepop

If you're going from the Dropbox site, you should be able to just select your photos or folder and then a bar appears near the top of the page with an icon that says "download". You should just be able to click that. If you're going from the program on your computer, you can just copy and paste like you do any other file of any other folder.

If it's saying you don't have enough space, maybe try doing it a few at a time instead of all at once? It could be that the combined size of all of the photos is just too much for your computer to handle all at once. Photos from those really nice cameras can sometimes be a good size file. If that still doesn't work, try downloading a couple of them into an empty flashdrive and see if that works.

Edited for grammar.

porkchops926

Sorry, one more thing if Dropbox happens to be the issue. Found this link for other file sharing options. 

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2505487/web-apps/10-file-sharing-options-dropbox-google-drive-and-more.html

plainjane0415

Thanks Ladies, what I ended up having to do (after going thru your links and digging thru dropbox's help section) was sync the shared folder to a folder on my computer. Once that was done, I had to copy and drag those files to another file folder on my computer, and then delete the first part of the photos so that she could send me the second part. Now the second part is syncing and I have my folders saved in two places. One on my desktop and one on my empty jump drive.  Thanks for your help! That was tougher than I thought.