Copy to Dropbox

Drive Downloader can copy your selection straight into your Dropbox, without downloading anything to your computer.

Before you start

Link your Dropbox once on the Integrations page. Personal Dropbox accounts are supported; team folders are not.

How to copy

  1. Start a New export and complete What to export and File formats as usual.
  2. In Save to, choose Dropbox. The linked account is shown with its free space.
  3. Click Start copy.

Files are copied into Dropbox › Apps › Drive Tools, with their folders recreated. The copy runs in the background, so you can close the tab. We email you when it is done.

Google Docs, Sheets and Slides

Dropbox cannot hold Google files, so they arrive in the formats chosen in step 2. See Google File Formats.

Files with the same name

A file whose name is already taken in the folder is saved with a number added, for example report (1).pdf. Existing files are never replaced.

Not enough space

Before the copy starts, Drive Downloader compares its size with your free Dropbox space. If it may not fit, you see This copy may not fit with Start anyway or Back to options. If Dropbox fills up during the copy, it stops; files already copied stay.

What Drive Downloader can access

In Dropbox, Drive Downloader can only use its own folder, Apps › Drive Tools. It cannot see anything else.

Copied files count toward your plan the same way as downloads.