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How do I download everything from a cloud account to my external drive?

Short answer: Create a Copy with the cloud account's root as the Source and a folder on your external drive as the Destination. Add a schedule to keep it topped up; only new or changed files are fetched each time.

Use a Copy from the account to a folder on your external drive:

  1. New Transfer → Copy.
  2. Source: cloud button → Use … root for the account (or Browse to a folder).
  3. Destination: folder button → a new folder on your external drive.
  4. Start it. Files come straight to the drive, not your Mac's internal disk.

Add a Daily or Weekly schedule to keep the drive copy topped up — each run only fetches what's new or changed. Choose Sync (one-way) instead if you want the drive copy to also drop files you've deleted in the cloud.

Related: Use … root · Is a transfer a backup?

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