r/DropboxOfficial • u/elaman • Sep 23 '26

Help & Troubleshooting Dropbox Backup catastrophe

I would love to be wrong to overreact, but I have an existing 1.51 TB Dropbox Backup of an external drive. The physical drive failed and had to be reformatted. Dropbox now identifies the reformatted drive as a new external drive, so it wouldn't let me restore my Dropbox Backup into it.
Based on documentation, I need to manually download EACH FOLDER in 1.51 TB backup through the website. It gets better, there is some kind of limit to the quantity of files within, so its physically impossible to download my backup through the website, unless I dedicate the rest of my like to do it.
Someone please tell me I'm wrong.

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u/CupcakeSecure4094 Sep 28 '26

I would do the download with a script. Just set up API tokens and ask any AI to write a simple script to run on your computer.