wget is a command-line downloading tool. You can download all of the publicly available contents of a website with a single command. I don't know if it will work with dropbox or not, I've never tried. Can you link me? I'll see what I can come up with.
It worked on the first few folders, but is choking on the tabulators. I'm guessing they're over the 1GB limit. I don't know how to get around it, if it's even possible. Sorry. Maybe someone else will have the answer.
All of the folders download as zips, so they're compressed. There are just so many images in these various folders, they exceed the 1GB limit.
The only solution I've seen so far is to install the desktop app and add it as one of your shares. I don't know if that's an option. I've not used dropbox very much.
Would it be possible to write a small program to automate the moving of the files? Download 1GB; copy; unzip; sort; save; repeat, or something like that? Or could a keyboard recorder bot/script type thing work?
You can download all the subfolders individually. You'd have to go through and get the links for every single one of them. It's a chore either way, unfortunately. But yes, you can absolutely script it if you're so inclined. I'm just not sure it's saving much time/effort that way, at least for the individual. For the community it would save a lot of people time. But then there's the issue of getting the less proficient involved with wget and the command-line. Not sure I'm up to the task of that, it can be hard enough to get people to turn it off and back on again.
Hire someone to write scripts for you. Serious. Use airtasker, upwork, fiver and other small contacting sites and ask for help there. You might find a pede in there that has the skills and may have time to donate to the cause as well.
Is it on a website/FTP? You could try wget with the recursive flag.
wget is a command-line downloading tool. You can download all of the publicly available contents of a website with a single command. I don't know if it will work with dropbox or not, I've never tried. Can you link me? I'll see what I can come up with.
It worked on the first few folders, but is choking on the tabulators. I'm guessing they're over the 1GB limit. I don't know how to get around it, if it's even possible. Sorry. Maybe someone else will have the answer.
Could his files be compressed, then moved into one big file to fit under the 1 GB limit, and would that help what he is trying to do?
All of the folders download as zips, so they're compressed. There are just so many images in these various folders, they exceed the 1GB limit.
The only solution I've seen so far is to install the desktop app and add it as one of your shares. I don't know if that's an option. I've not used dropbox very much.
Would it be possible to write a small program to automate the moving of the files? Download 1GB; copy; unzip; sort; save; repeat, or something like that? Or could a keyboard recorder bot/script type thing work?
You can download all the subfolders individually. You'd have to go through and get the links for every single one of them. It's a chore either way, unfortunately. But yes, you can absolutely script it if you're so inclined. I'm just not sure it's saving much time/effort that way, at least for the individual. For the community it would save a lot of people time. But then there's the issue of getting the less proficient involved with wget and the command-line. Not sure I'm up to the task of that, it can be hard enough to get people to turn it off and back on again.
Hire someone to write scripts for you. Serious. Use airtasker, upwork, fiver and other small contacting sites and ask for help there. You might find a pede in there that has the skills and may have time to donate to the cause as well.