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How to download groups of videos from Dropbox and save the videos in the folder "video".


So what are these .zip files I keep mentioning?
As an example, I have a single folder on one of my Dropbox accounts called "video_0000_1970". This folder contains 16 videos of films made from 1950-1970. It is these 16 videos which you need to transfer to the folder "video" on you device so that the videos can play smoothly in the album.

Think of the Dropbox folder "video_0000_1970" as a shopping bag with 16 videos inside the bag.
When you ask Dropbox to "Download all", Dropbox spends a bit of time constructing its own shopping bag as a new container for the 16 video files. That container (which is called a "zip file") can then be sent to you as a single big file. Folders themselves cannot be sent in this way.

The "zip" container file is giving a unique name and the file extension .zip and will be saved in the Downloads folder on your computer.
The great thing is, at the receiving end (on your computer), the container can be un-packed ("un-zipped", "extracted") and all of the 16 video files will appear, correctly named, in exactly the same way as they were stored on Dropbox.




Like everything on computers, it is easy when you know how.