How to download a file from Dropbox. Unconventional ways to use Dropbox

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Hello, dear readers of the blog site. Not long ago I published an article, which now acts as a kind of add-on l (the “Files” tab in the web interface).

The thing is convenient and I actively use it. But it would probably be wrong to ignore the service that was first implemented cloud storage idea and which, on this moment, has one of the largest user audiences, which already numbers tens of millions. I'm talking, of course, about Dropbox.

The problem of exchanging files between computers, tablets and phones is solved by creating cloud server a folder on the Internet that will contain all the data that you will upload to the Dropbox folder on your computer. This folder can be accessed either through the web interface or using a program installed on your other computers, tablets and phones.

Which is better - Yandex disk or Dropbox (there are also other storage facilities, for example, or)? Let’s answer this question yourself by trying both cloud data storage services and evaluating their functionality and convenience. Dropbox can be supported by the fact that many programs can use it to synchronize their data, or the fact that the bourgeois service maintains and stores a history of changes to all files (up to one month per free account) and you can always roll back (this is convenient, especially when editing documents together).

Creating an account in cloud storage

In order to try Dropbox in action, you first have to fill out a simple registration form on this page (unfortunately, this bourgeois service has not yet acquired a Russian interface, which is probably due to the small number of paid accounts registered by RuNet users).

P.S. It is noteworthy that a week after the publication of this article, the Dropbox web interface and the program that you install on your computer became fully support Russian language. Either they heard my groans, or it was a coincidence. Although, my megalomania votes, of course, for the first option.

If in some incomprehensible way Russian was not selected as the default language, then this misunderstanding can be easily corrected by clicking on the language selection button in the lower right corner of the Dropbox website window:

Well, actually, the registration form (already in Russian):

You can enter your data in Cyrillic, and you can then use Russian characters in the names of files and folders that will be synchronized and stored in Dropbox. In the future, your login will be the email you specified during registration.

After clicking on the create an account button, you will be redirected to a page where, without any preamble, your browser will display a program download dialog to install it on your computer. Indeed, someone may not notice the button to download the program, but that’s for sure. However, for your other computers you you can download Dropbox from this page:

At the first step, the installation wizard will ask whether you already have a Dropbox account (second checkbox) or whether you still need to create one (check the first line):

We have already created an account, so mark the second option and click on Next. Next, you will be asked to provide your account information and, if desired, change the name of the computer to which it will be linked. this version programs:

After clicking Next, the program will connect to the service, checking the account data you entered, after which you will be given a choice - not to pay anything and have only pitiful 2 GB of disk space in cloud storage, or pay ten or twenty dollars a month for a hundred or even two hundred gigabytes on a paid account:

What Russian doesn't like freebies? This is probably why the owners of Dropbox were in no hurry to translate it into Russian. Of course, 2 GB will not be enough, but it is possible to expand this space by performing a few simple passes, or by attracting new users to this cloud storage(at refs you can dial up to 16 gigs, which is much better than two).

I have to use Google Chrome integrated into the browser, because I am extremely weak and helpless in English. By the way, he translates better and better every year.

Moreover, the referral program is very cunning. For each new recruit you will be given an additional half a gig of disk space in the cloud storage. However, the same half a gig will also be received by those who registered using your referral link. For example, I went to the Dropbox website using a referral link and after a while I received a letter explaining that I now have as much as 2.5 gigabytes in cloud storage and suggested where I could get your referral link:

Here's my reference. In general, they have everything thought out. Dropbox, by the way, is a very profitable company, whose income is measured in hundreds of millions of dollars a year and all thanks to a huge audience of users, simple and clear interface, as well as high reliability and availability. Well, the referral program helps increase these same incomes, which Lately, probably, it’s not so easy to do, because several dozen analogues have appeared that are not inferior to Dropbox in functionality, and sometimes even superior to it.

Installing and configuring the Dropbox program on your computer

Okay, let's get back to our sheep. At the final step of the program installation wizard, you will be prompted change the location of the Dropbox folder on the computer (“Typical” by default, and “Advanced” - with the ability to independently select):

Personally, I try to do nothing extra system disk do not put it so that the image created in Acronis is not too large, so in in this case I select the “Advanced” option and specify a different path for the shared folder (not on the system drive):

Next, you will be asked which folders you want to synchronize with the cloud storage server and, accordingly, with all other Dropbox programs installed on your own computers. The checkbox in the first line will mean complete synchronization of all subfolders and files, and when you check the box in the second position, you will need to uncheck those folders that you do not want to synchronize for one reason or another.

That’s it, the steps of the installation wizard are completed, after which you will be offered to look at explanatory pictures on working with this cloud storage service and its desktop part. By the way, it turned out quite clearly; the big one that appeared looked especially cool green arrow, which swayed and pointed to the Dropbox program icon blinking in the tray; double clicking on it will open a window to the cloud data storage:

If you right-click on the program icon in the tray and select the settings item from the context menu of the gear icon (you could bury it even further):

A window will appear where you can tweak some things and see the percentage of your limit in the cloud storage. At the time of synchronization, the percentage of completion and data transfer speed will be displayed. Well, a list of recently added files to your cloud will also be displayed. We are still interested settings, so we select the item "Options".

On the first “General” tab, you can disable the appearance of notifications about various events that occurred in the cloud storage (adding a file, changing a document you are working on with someone, etc.), and you can also disable autoloading of the program Dropbox with Windows and disable fast synchronization data with computers in your local network.

Let me explain the last point. If Dropbox is installed, for example, on the computers of you and your significant other, who is sitting in the same local home network, and you are logged into it under one account, then the files placed in the shared folder first copied over local network to a second computer, and only then will they be uploaded to cloud storage via the Internet. This will greatly speed up the exchange of heavy files within the local network, thus eliminating double downloading of files via the Internet.

Next tab in window Dropbox settings called "Account" and allows you to perform only one action - disconnect the program on this computer from your account in the cloud data storage. On the tab "Traffic" You can, if desired, limit the speed of downloading and uploading files from the cloud and to the cloud during synchronization. It probably makes sense to do this on a common Internet channel for many users, for example, on a home or work network.

You can also set the proxy server settings if for some reason you use it to access the Internet. On the tab "Advanced" you will see all the same settings as when installing this program on your computer - the ability to change the location of the Dropbox folder and disable synchronization for individual folders in your cloud storage. It would be possible, of course, to choose a language, because recently there has been full support for the great and powerful Russian language.

How to use Dropbox?

After installing the program, you will see the contents of your Dropbox folder, where, in fact, there will be nothing except the “Photos” folder and a short manual. In the “Photos” folder you will find a folder with a demo album. Photo albums in Dropbox are formed based on folders created inside "Photos":

After creating a folder for a new album and dragging new photos into it, a blue tab will appear to the left of its icon, which will change to green after synchronization is complete (uploading new files from your computer folder to cloud storage).

To give your friends or anyone else the opportunity to view photos from your photo album, you can click right click mouse over the folder with the album, select “Dropbox” from the context menu of this folder - “Share a link” (share a folder or file):

After this, you will be transferred to the browser, which is the default in the system, and you will see a window asking you to send a link to view this photo album by mail (it can be seen on background this window) or copy the public link to it to the clipboard by clicking on the “Get link” button:

Any person who received this link from you or copied it on the site will be able to view the list of photos in the album, download them all in the form of one archive, or just look at full screen mode, clicking on the screen with the left mouse button to load the next photo:

You can share more than just folders in Dropbox, but also separate files. For example, I applied everything described just above to the Getting Started.pdf file, which was present in the cloud folder by default. Now this file is available to everyone via the shared link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pfmmievx9tshh05/Getting%20Started.pdf

Depending on the default settings of your browser, it will either be opened for viewing in the browser, or a dialog for downloading it to your computer will be activated.

Just above, we made it possible for all Internet users, without exception, to view the contents of a folder by following the appropriate link. But often there is a need to have shared folder to collaborate with files located there, and access to it should be limited.

To do this, you will need to select “Dropbox” - “Access to folder” from the context menu of this folder:

A window will open in the browser where you will need to specify the Email address of the person with whom you want to collaborate with the files in this folder, and click on the “Grant access” button:

As a result, at the specified Mailbox You will receive a letter from Dropbox that looks like this:

Now the two of you can edit the files there, add and delete them if necessary. Thanks to Dropbox's ability to rollback any changes and management detailed history edits, you can be calm about uncoordinated actions. We'll fix everything. You can, if desired, similarly add the required number of users who will be able to work with files in this folder.

View the previous version of a file in DropBox and restore it

How does rolling back file changes work? stored in Dropbox cloud storage? Surprisingly simple. For example, I placed the “Draft” file in the “Shared” folder and edited it in both accounts for which this folder was shared. Now right-click on this file and select “View previous versions”:

As a result, a browser window will open with the web interface of this cloud storage, where for this specific file All changes made to it will be listed minute by minute, indicating the name of the person who did it. In addition, you can check the box next to the desired backup copy of the document and click on the “Restore” button to roll back unsuccessful or accidentally saved changes:

This is exactly why I love Dropbox. Now I have all the files to which I periodically make changes stored in my local Dropbox folder, so that I can be calm not only about their safety, but also that an erroneous saving will not kill all my years of work. True, in a free account The change history will be stored for only one month, and then it will be deleted.

If it is important for you to keep the history of changes longer, you will have to activate the Packrat service by first switching to one of the paid tariffs. By the way, about the birds.

Expanding cloud storage with bonuses

In addition to attracting referrals described just above (with this you can earn up to 16 gigs extra space) there is a promotion Samsung + Dropbox, which in my case brought me immediately 48 GB of additional space in this cloud storage for a period of two years:

I simply installed Dropbox on my wife’s mobile phone (Gnusmas Galaxy S3), logged into my account and almost immediately received a letter of congratulations. If you add all the other bonuses to the maximum, you will get somewhere around 64 Gigs, which is already comparable to the first paid tariff 100 gigs, for which every month you would have to pay ten evergreens. Quite a nice freebie.

By the way, in addition to referrals, you can also fill out a checklist on the page " Where to begin", thereby adding a few more hard gigabytes to your cloud, especially since this will be the same “young fighter course”, after completing which you will become completely comfortable with Dropbox. In general, combine business with pleasure:

Let's take a look now online version of the service, which will be available to you always and without installation additional programs- through regular or mobile browser. To access your cloud drive You will have to enter the email you specified during registration and the password you created there.

Working with the Dropbox web interface

By default, the contents of the Dropbox folder open, where the entire folder and file structure you created on your computer will be repeated (due to synchronization). Actually, the web interface allows you to do everything the same as the desktop program, but at the same time you can work with cloud files from any computer - all you need to do is log in.

When you right-click on a file or folder, it will open context menu, which allows you to perform a number of actions on this object shown in the screenshot (download for editing, delete, share, make the folder public, move, copy or rename).

Just above there are buttons for downloading an edited or new file, for creating a new folder, for sharing it (you will be offered to either create new folder and make it general, or select from existing ones), as well as to display all files deleted by you or other account users.

On the tab "General access" all will be given shared folders, in which you work with files together with other invited Dropbox users (well, or with those who invited you). And on the tab "Links" you will find a list of all public links to folders and files in your account:

There you can copy the public link again, or eliminate the possibility public viewing data folders and files using crosses located at the end of the lines. On the tab "News" you will find an event log (protocol) where you can track in time all the actions performed ever and by anyone in your account. We just talked about the purpose of the “Where to start” tab.

If you click on your first and last name, which are located on the right top corner, then from the drop-down list you can select items to log out of your account (if you need to log in to another); to switch to another tariff plan(Expand opportunities); to download Dropbox latest version(Install), and finally, in order to get into settings for this wonderful cloud service (Settings):

On the first tab of Dropobox settings, called "Intelligence", you will be able to review what you have disk space in this cloud service and what part of it is still free.

On the tab "Account settings" you can change your first and last name, linked address Email, as well as connect your Dropbox account with Twitter, Facebook, Gmail or Yahoo. Well, and something else can be configured there, up to complete removal your account from this cloud (link at the bottom of the settings window).

Protecting DropBox from hacking

Bottom of the window "Protection" you will find a list of devices from which this account has ever been accessed so that you can track unauthorized connection, and just below there will be a list of browsers in which you worked with Dropbox using your username and password.

At the top of this window, you will be able to change this very password, as well as uncheck the boxes for notifications to be sent to you by email when a new device connects to your cloud or any application accesses it.

Interestingly, it will be possible there activate two-step authentication , which can seriously increase the security of working with your account in this cloud service (read about similar ones). What it is?

Everything is banally simple. In addition to entering your login and password, now, when connecting from a new device, you will be required to confirm using the mobile phone specified in the settings (either you will receive a code in an SMS message or a code from the mobile application). At re-entry from the same device (computer, mobile phone, tablet) a simple authorization will be sufficient. It’s very convenient, and most importantly, it greatly increases the security of working with your files in this cloud storage.

So feel free to click on the link "Change" and in the pop-up window, click on the “Getting Started” button. Since this is a very important matter, you will be asked to enter the password for your Dropbox account again. Next, you will be offered a choice of two options: either enter the code from incoming SMS messages, or install a special application on your mobile phone:

SMS messages are free, so without further ado I chose the first option, and in the next step I indicated the country and my mobile phone number, to which I immediately received an SMS with a code that I had to enter in the next window of the two-step verification connection wizard. Next, I was asked to indicate a backup number cell phone, which may be needed if the first one is unavailable or lost.

Well, at the very end they suggested remember (write down) the security code, which will help you disable two-step verification if you cannot access your Dropbox account using it:

Now, if anyone even finds out your username and password for your Dropbox account, then when you try to log in, he will be very puzzled by the request to enter a security code, which will be sent to your mobile phone:

How to use mobile versions of Dropbox

Let's now talk a little about the mobile versions of the Dropbox program, which will allow us to view documents and files from this cloud folder on a tablet or smartphone, as well as edit them or add our own. Principle of operation mobile versions programs is somewhat different from how the desktop version works.

The fact is that the desktop version of the program by default tries to completely synchronize files from the cloud storage folder with files from local folder Dropbox. This is quite logical and convenient, because the vast majority of users of this program have unlimited Internet, and the gigabytes of hard disks are such that the size of files downloaded from the cloud is unlikely to be too noticeable. However, you are always free to exclude from the synchronization process unnecessary folders in the settings of the desktop version of the program (see above).

Another thing is mobile phones or tablets, where the size of the data storage space may be significantly smaller than the size of your folder in the cloud storage. How can we be here? The developers did it quite simply - by default, the files in the cloud are completely are not copied or stored on mobile devices. When a user opens one of the folders and wants to see a picture, office document or something similar, then this file is downloaded to his mobile phone upon request.

If you need to have copies of files from cloud storage on your smartphone or tablet that would be available offline, then you will only need add such files to favorites. It’s very convenient, for example, by connecting to Wi-Fi at home, you can add to your favorites all the documents or media files that you will need on the way to work, and you won’t have to go broke on expensive mobile traffic, which does not always take place in the same metro.

Well, if you have a Gnusmas smartphone (Samsung) based on Android, then by searching on Google Play program Dropbox, by installing it and logging into your account, you will quite possibly receive a bonus in the form of additional gigabytes to your cloud storage. Personally, I got about 50 gigs of freebies.

But this does not mean at all that there is no point in going to the iPhone and iPad owners. App Store and install a similar program - even without additional goodies, Dropbox will give you a lot of convenience and pleasant sensations.

Automatically save photos from the gadget to Dropbox

When you first start the program, you will be prompted save automatically everything you have done on mobile phone or tablet Photo and video to a separate folder in the Dropbox cloud. At the same time, by default they offer to automatically download footage only when connected via Wifi to the Internet, so as not to waste mobile traffic, but you are free to choose the second, more wasteful option:

This was a screenshot from an iPad, but in an Android smartphone the picture will be similar:

Here you will actually be asked about the fate of the photos and videos you already have on your phone - if you check the box, they will all be merged into cloud folder "Camera Uploads". What's remarkable is for each of your mobile devices separate folder will not be created - everything will be merged into one “Camera Uploads”. But it's still very convenient.

Documents or files that you create in other programs on your mobile devices can be transferred to the Dropbox program, which will merge these files, in turn, into a cloud service so that you can continue working with this document on your computer at home. As an example, there are a lot of options for using Dropbox and not all of them are obvious. You need to install the program and try it to understand the beauty of the cloud.

Program window on iPad you can see in the screenshot just below:

At the bottom of the left column there are four tabs: Dropbox folder contents; storage of photos and videos of your iPad; selected files and program settings, which were opened in the above screenshot. There aren't many settings, but it's still something.

Any file from the Dropbox folder you can Add to favorites using an icon star-shaped, which is located in the upper right corner of the screen. All files added to favorites will be stored in the memory of your mobile device and can be accessed even while offline on the corresponding tab in the left column of the program window. When viewing files in the Dropbox folder, your favorites will be marked with stars:

Just above the second tab icon in the left column of the program (your iPad’s photo and video storage) the number of new files that have not yet been uploaded to the cloud service will be shown. In order to correct this annoying misunderstanding, just go to this tab and file synchronization will begin immediately (if you are connected via Wi-Fi). It’s quite convenient to upload the footage to mobile device media files to computer.

Work is organized in approximately the same way in the program for smartphones. based on Android:

You can add individual files from the Dropbox folder to your favorites for storage in the device memory and upload all the footage to the cloud mobile device Photo and video. Quite convenient and unobtrusive. For example, this is how I transfer books to the iPad that are installed there.

Some mobile applications can use this cloud service to synchronize your files with desktop applications. I once wrote about, which I now use to avoid theft of passwords from my computer by Trojans (after this). So, Kipas stores passwords in an encrypted database, which, however, no one bothers you to place in the Dropbox folder, for its greater safety and accessibility from other computers.

Then on your iPad you can install, for example, the KyPass application, which can use the Kypass database downloaded from Dropbox. And there are quite a lot of such programs. They can access your cloud storage and use it for their own purposes, some of which may be quite unexpected.

There are also desktop applications that can connect to your Dropbox account and use its folder to transfer files or data. For example, this way you can monitor another computer - the program takes screenshots of the desktop at specified intervals and sends them to the cloud. There is a program that simplifies the synchronization of program settings on different computers by placing files with settings in a cloud folder, and leaving shortcuts in their place.

There are also programs that allow you to encrypt the contents of the Dropbox folder on the fly, and another program installed on another computer decrypts the whole thing on the fly. However, it seems to me more acceptable in this case to use a time-tested encryption program. For example, you can easily create it in a cloud directory and put it next to it portable version the same program so that this container can be decrypted on another computer.

There is even one called wp Time Machine, which can create and place it in the folder of this cloud service of your blog (wp-content directory and database dump). You will only need to specify the login and password for your Dropbox account in the plugin settings and name the folder where the backups will be stored.

In general, there are a lot of possibilities and I will be glad if you share your work on using Dropbox.

Good luck to you! See you soon on the pages of the blog site

Dropbox Basics

Saving files to Dropbox

Let's start with how to save files to Dropbox.

Add current data to Dropbox

But what to do with existing documents, photos, music? In general, with everything that is dear to you. You can use Dropbox for all files, not just new ones.

Everything old can also be transferred to Dropbox and stored there. How to do it? Very simple. You can drag and drop any files into your Dropbox folder and they will be safe and accessible from any device.

And if you don't like dragging files, right-click on the file, select Copy, then go to the Dropbox folder, right-click there again and click Paste.

Dropbox takes care of syncing and storing your data. While the files are uploaded to the server, you can continue to use your computer as you please. All processes take place in background. As soon as you see green tick opposite the files that you have stored in Dropbox - you can be sure that your files are backed up and accessible from any of your devices.

Access files stored in Dropbox

To access the data you store in Dropbox, simply click the Dropbox icon on your desktop or the Dropbox icon in the system tray (bottom right next to the clock).

When you click on the icon, your Dropbox folder will open and you will be able to work with files as you would with files in regular folder on the higher computer.

Access your files from any computer with Dropbox

If you have to work on someone else's computer, you can work with any of your data that is stored in Dropbox. Go to Dropbox.com and log in with your credentials. You will see the contents of your dropbox folder and you can get to work!

Share your data with other users

If you right-click on any folder inside your Dropbox folder, you will see a Dropbox option in the drop-down menu, and inside it an option General access" Enter the emails of the people you want to give access to this folder. Once they confirm your invitation, they will be able to work with the data in this folder as if they were their own. This Dropbox option is convenient to use to organize working together over documents, share photos and more.

Use Dropbox but don't forget that you only get 2GB for free free space. You can get an additional place both for money and by performing various actions, for example, inviting friends.

Now you know the basics of how to use Dropbox. Nose using Dropbox you can do many more interesting things. Below we provide links to articles on how else you can use dropbox. And below you will learn how to use Dropbox on your mobile phone.

Let's now see how to use Dropbox on your iPhone. To get started, download and install the application from Apple Store as usual. To find the application, just enter Dropbox in the search, it will be difficult to make a mistake, I think. After that, click on the icon to launch the application.

This is the Dropbox welcome screen. If you already have an account, select the appropriate option.

The picture shows the My Dropbox screen where you can see all your folders and files. Click on any file to view it.

For example, you can view a pdf like in this example. Navigation is carried out as usual. Now let's try to upload to Dropbox new file. To go back to the main menu, click "My Dropbox".

Click on the camera image below. This will allow you to upload a new photo to your account.

You can either take a new photo or video and immediately upload it to Dropbox, or use the ones you already have on your phone. We're using the second option, so click Existing Photo or Video.

You go to your usual photo album. Select and click on the picture you intend to save to Dropbox.

The photo will begin loading immediately. Once the process is complete, you can start accessing photos from the My Dropbox screen. In addition, it is now accessible from your online account and from your computer.

Note-advice on how to download a large number of files from the shared Dropbox folder

A few days ago we had a small but important family holiday. Since the celebration took place in my hometown in the Zaporozhye region, and we live in Kyiv, my photographer friend had to upload photos to Dropbox in order for us to receive them. Him paid account and it was no problem for him to upload almost 10 GB and give me a link to the shared folder with our photos. I wanted to download all the photos to my computer, but that was not the case! To my free Dropbox, which has a little more than a Gigabyte free, I connect this big folder couldn't - button " Accept" was just grey:

Many experienced Dropbox users Of course, now we’re thinking about this convenient function of this service - " Download as ZIP file". To be honest, I also immediately thought about it and clicked the button. In response, I received another refusal:

Unfortunately, the service’s functionality does not allow you to mark files in several groups and download several ZIP files.
Of course, you can open each photo for viewing and then, using the capabilities of the service, download them one by one. But I had about a thousand of them!
Having spent a lot of time inventing search queries I still haven’t found a solution to my problem in Russian and English. I had to think on my own :-) and soon a solution was found.

I would like to warn Russian-speaking readers that in some screenshots the windows will be in Ukrainian - I am Ukrainian, I live in Ukraine and I, like you, like the interface of my computer to be in my native language. I assure you that this will not in any way affect the quality of my instructions.

What do we need?
1. Free manager Download Master;
2. Text editor Notepad;
3. Mozilla Firefox browser;
4. CopyLinks browser extension (add-on) Mozilla Firefox:

So let's get started.
1. Install Firefox and Download Master, install the CopyLinks extension, restart Firefox. Download Master is better at at this stage close it if you have started it, since its link interception function will only interfere with us for now.
2. Open in Firefox tab shared Dropbox folder with photos and in any empty space right-click on the page and select Copy Links subparagraph Copy All Links:

After performing this operation, all links contained on the page will be copied to the clipboard. Including links to opening photos for viewing (note - only for viewing, but not for downloading).
Now it's time to use the standard text Windows editor- A notepad - and with its help, use one small, but very useful trick Dropbox service. A little about this very trick: if on the page open folder with photographs, right-click on the thumbnail of a photo and select “Copy link”, then the link will be copied, clicking on which will take us to the page for viewing the photo; but if we add a small command to this link at the end, then we will get a direct link to download the original file, this command: ?dl=1. So let's use this trick. After launching the Notepad program, a new empty one will open. Text Document, fill it with the contents of the clipboard using the command Editing => Insert or a combination Ctrl+V. We get approximately the following:

As you remember, to convert links to view photos into links to download, you need to add the command behind each photo address ?dl=1. Let's do this through the Notepad function" Replace..."by launching it from the menu Editing=>Replace... or by pressing the combination Ctrl+H. In the window that appears " Replacement" in field " Find"we write the extension of the photo files we need: .jpg , and in the field " Replaced by"we write the same extension, but with the addition of our “cunning” command: .jpg?dl=1 , as in the following illustration:

Press the button " Replace all"close the window" Replacement" and we are happy with the result, seeing that our download command has been added to the links to view pictures:

Minimize Notepad - it’s time to launch Download Master. Launch it, go to the menu Tools => Settings, open the section Are common => Integration and check whether the item " is checked Track URL on clipboard", if not checked, mark:

press OK and minimize Download Master. Go to the Notepad window containing links, select all links through the menu Editing => Select all or a combination Ctrl+A. Copy the selected text to the clipboard using the menu command Editing => Copy or a combination Ctrl+C. Download Master will immediately respond to the appearance of links in the clipboard and begin processing them:

After processing the clipboard, Download Master will show us the window " Captured from text", in which we see all the links it intercepted. Since we need to select only links to download photos, we will use the function " Filter"by clicking the corresponding button, and in the window that appears " URL Settings Filter"select an option" Use the following extensions", delete all extensions listed in the text field and enter only the extension we need there JPG:

Press the button " Apply" and we see that Download Master has selected among all the links only links to download files from JPG extension, ticking each of them in the corresponding checkbox:

Click "OK" and the following dialog box appears - " Add download", in which we can select the download options for the first file in the list of files we need. By clicking the " button Change"near the field" Save to"we can select a folder to save the downloaded files. There are a couple of things to consider important points: you must tick the checkbox " Limit the maximum number of sections for uploading" and set the parameter " 1 "(so that Download Master does not start downloading each file in several threads), and also uncheck the checkbox " Get file size when adding an upload"If you do not take these two points into account, then Dropbox will perceive the actions of Download Master as a browser error (it does not assume that we are downloading files instead of viewing them) and the file will not be downloaded or will be downloaded with errors. Having set the necessary parameters, press the button " Start downloading". Download Master will show us the last window before starting the download, in which it will offer to automatically add the settings we have chosen to the remaining files:

Of course we will agree by pressing the button " Yes". The downloading of files will begin and the last thing we need to do is limit the number of simultaneously downloaded files to 5 :

If this is not done, then some files may be downloaded with errors or incompletely downloaded - this has been verified empirically. Apparently Dropbox limits the number of concurrent connections.

In conclusion, I’ll add - of course, you can use any suitable software, I just tried to explain how I did it using programs that were previously familiar to me. If not only pictures, but also files of other types are uploaded to Dropbox, they can be downloaded using the same algorithm. The main thing is to copy all the links from the page, add the command at the end of the links to the necessary files ?dl=1 and somehow download it all.

That's all. I will be glad if my advice is useful to someone.

Don’t be so quick to say, “I don’t need this” after just reading the title of this article. If you are the happy owner of any of Apple iOS devices, and are also an active Internet user, then I am more than confident that this material will be useful for you. So, what is this article about? You have probably used file hosting services many times to transfer files to your friends or simply to store some personal data.

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However, the obvious disadvantages of conventional file hosting services are the lack of ability convenient synchronization with computers and iOS devices.

Dropbox + iFile + iPhone (iPad, iPod Touch) will allow you to carry out full control over your personal data from anywhere in the world. You can easily store, upload, download, edit and share your files, just like using a computer, under Windows control or Mac OS X, or from any iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch). And so, in order:

Dropbox is the most famous and popular service, which allows you to store user data on remote servers(“cloud”) and share with them via the Internet. Any file of your data can have a direct download link.

Install the Dropbox client on Windows, Mac, Linux or iOS devices.

2 . Download and install the Dropbox client on your computer, iPhone or iPad.

Free— a tariff plan that provides 2 GB of free space in the Dropbox cloud and allows you to increase cloud space up to 18 GB for attracting referrals. You will receive an additional 500 MB of space for each registration using your referral link or invitation.

Pro 50— a tariff plan that provides 50 GB in the Dropbox cloud for $9.99 per month or $99.99 per year and allows you to increase cloud space up to 82 GB for attracting referrals. You will receive an additional 1 GB of space for each registration using your referral link or invitation.

Pro 100— a tariff plan that provides 100 GB of Dropbox cloud storage for $19.99 per month or $199.99 per year and allows you to increase cloud space up to 132 GB for attracting referrals. You will receive an additional 1 GB of space for each registration using your referral link or invitation.

Team— tariff plan for corporate clients, providing from 1 TB in the Dropbox cloud for 5 users for $795 per year, with the ability to add users. Each added user will increase the size of the corporate cloud by 200 GB for $125 per year.

5 . After installing the client, a special folder Dropbox. When you open it, you will see the subfolders Public, Foto and others. You can delete or rename these folders as desired. You can see the same folders in the web interface of the Dropbox service by logging in to dropbox.com.

The operating principle of Dropbox is based on synchronization, i.e. If you place a file in any of the Dropbox folders on your computer, then this file will instantly begin to be copied to the “cloud” and will be available to you via the web interface from anywhere in the world.

Each Dropbox folder has an indicator that shows the user what processes are going on.

Files do not have storage periods, unlike most file hosting services.

7 . Congratulations! You have become a user of the very convenient cloud service Dropbox. You can use it to store important documents, music, videos, etc. Try the service yourself by creating a folder and placing several files in it.

How to download and upload files from/to Dropbox on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch using iFile program from Cydia?

1 . Jailbreak your iOS device. Detailed instructions You can find it in our section.

3 . Launch the iFile program and click on the Settings icon in the lower left corner of the program window.

4 . Click on "Link to Dropbox". And in the authorization window that opens, enter your registration e-mail and password.

5 . Click on the icon in the lower right corner of the program window.

6 . Click on the "+" icon.

7 . From the menu that appears, select Dropbox.

8 . will appear in front of you new inset with a list of folders in your Dropbox account.

9 . Open the desired folder and select required file. When you click, the selected file will begin to download and you will be offered a list of applications with which you can open or edit it, of course, if they are available on your device.

You can download the entire contents of a folder from dropbox.com if both of the following statements are true:

The total folder size is less than 20 GB
There are no more than 10,000 files in the folder

To download an entire folder directly from dropbox.com:

Log in with your username and password to dropbox.com.
Find the folder you need to download.
Click on the icon … (ellipses) to the right of the folder name.
Click Download.

Your browser will download the folder as a single zipped file (ZIP format). You can find this file in ZIP format in the folder where your browser usually downloads data (this is indicated in its settings). The file will be named the same as the folder itself, only at the end it will be added .zip.

To access the contents of a ZIP file, open it and unzip it.

Majority operating systems capable of unzipping ZIP files without requiring additional installation software. But if suddenly you cannot open the file, you can find an archiver program on the Internet.

Please note: if you have Mac computer, and you downloaded a ZIP file larger than 4 GB, the Archive Utility on MacOS may not be able to extract the contents of the ZIP file. If this happens, you will need to use another program or Terminal to extract the contents.

What should I do if instead of the “Download” button I see the “Open” button?

If you see a button Open instead of a button Download, this means the folder is already synced with your Dropbox folder on your computer. Click the button Open to open this folder on your computer.