How do I do this? From what I see in both google drive and dropbox won't allow me to download an entire selected folder (files and other folders inside it) straight to my phone. What cloud storage application and mobile application would allow me to this the quickest and most seamlessly.
Brownie points if there is an app available for free that also does this on the iphone
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hi!
i own both android and ios devices...but have the same issue: dropbox and drive apps dowsn't store files when offline.
so if i just need to read a txt and there's no wifi, i can't open it.
and i can't select "favourite" for all the thousand files i store on the cloud. (for dropbox)
it's really annoying.
i found that an app on ios, notebooks for ipad, syncs with dropbox and allows me to read and modify txt while offline, and then automatically upload changes when i come back online.
there's anything similar on android?
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Previously, i was able to download a file from dropbox and save it to my device. Maybe i'm just lost, but i dont see the option to do that. Also, when i was doing this previously, there was a folder called Dropbox in File Manager HD that kept (and synced) all of the items i downloaded from Dropbox. I dont see that now.
You can download (export) a file by either:
1) Long-pressing on a file and selecting Export, or
2) Pressing the down-arrow enclosed by a circle (on the right) of a file, and selecting Export
As for the folder-syncing, as long as i've used Dropbox on Android, they haven't supported folder synchronization. I think I've read somewhere that they used to support it, but took it out. There might be a 3rd party app on the Google Play store that you can get to emulate this feature though.
The App to sync dropbox called "FolderSync" and "Dropsync"
Thanks guys. Thought i was going insane.
Code:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.goci.gdrivelite&hl=en
GDrive Lite allows you to view and manage your files stored on Google Drive.
It provides a free, quick and resource-friendly alternative to more robust solutions. It only takes ~4MB of storage space on your mobile device upon installation.
Some of its features include:
Upload files from your mobile device to Google Drive.
Download files from Google Drive to your mobile device.
Delete files and folders from Google Drive.
Rename files and folders on Google Drive.
Quick send downloaded files directly from the application (via bluetooth, Gmail, MMS, etc.).
Automatically upload a photo you have just taken with your mobile device camera to Google Drive.
Is there an app or extension to allow my Google drive account to be accessed by the native file manager? I have a few large files I access frequently and I would rather not download them to my device every time in order to use them
X-plore
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lonelycatgames.Xplore
That's not really what I'm looking for. I'm not looking for an alternative file manager, but something that would have my device see Google drive as a physical storage device like an SD card. Kind of like how it works on a desktop
I'm also looking for this. Something like it mounts cloud storage to the device.
Firstly you will need to be rooted. When you save files offline in Google Drive, they are saved to
/mnt/sdcard/Android/Data/com.google.android.apps.docs/files/pinned_docs_Files_do_not_edit/*CRAZY FOLDER NUMBER*. You would have to navigate to that location to access the file with your file explorer.
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