Sunday, July 19, 2015

How To Download A Shared Link From Dropbox


Someone has given you a Dropbox link and your not sure how to download the file.

In most cases you can just click the link and that will take you to the download page.

If the link is not clickable, highlight the link, then right click and select copy.

Open up Chrome or Internet Explorer

Right click and paste into your browsers address bar.




If this drop box window appears you probably haven't got a Dropbox account, click the X in the top right of the window.


You will be taken to a page that looks similar to this, click the Download button in the top right.

Click Download as Zip


The zip file will download in the bottom left of your Web browser if you are using Chrome

Or if you are using Internet Explorer a save as will appear at the bottom of the screen



Save to your desired location

Once downloaded you will need to unzip the file, right click on it,  then click extract all


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