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How to transfer Dropbox files to OneDrive

Jeff Mitchell

Jeff Mitchell

Founder, Simple Asset Manager

Most of us nowadays have devices with small internal storage, like me - and have devices with small hard drives but cloud storage with massive storage - it can be difficult to sync Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, etc.

  • made even worse if you dual boot Linux and Windows.

I found this trick while having to migrate out of Dropbox (2 terabytes) to OneDrive with 5 gbs of free storage to work with on my laptop.

Step 1) Install OneDrive for Linux, located here: https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive/ (Microsoft does not have an official Linux OneDrive application, but this is the one they'll direct you to as well)

The default OneDrive location is ~/home/your_user_name/OneDrive
Create a folder inside called to_transfer, from the console this would be:
mkdir ~/home/your_user_name/OneDrive/to_transfer

Step 2) Since you do not want your OneDrive to sync all remote files to your computer, open the console (Crtl + Alt + T) and create the following configuration file:

touch ~/.config/onedrive/sync_list
nano ~/.config/onedrive/sync_list
# sync_list supports comments
# include the below folder
to_transfer/
# exclude any temporary files
!to_transfer/*.tmp

Step 3) Download files you need from Dropbox or the drive you're migrating to OneDrive (the maximum zip file Dropbox will make is 20 gb unfortunately).

Step 4) Extract / Unzip the files into the to_transfer folder you created.

Step 5) Run the following from the console:

onedrive --synchronize --upload-only --no-remote-delete

Step 6) Once the upload completes, repeat as necessary until you've transferred all of your files to OneDrive.

Welcome

Jeff Mitchell

Jeff Mitchell

Founder, Simple Asset Manager

Welcome to Simple Asset Manager.

Our goal is to transform how your team develops, manages, and invests in Commercial Real Estate.

While the name is Simple - it is by no means ordinary. Simple Asset Manager was born in a Tokyo cafe March 3, 2018. I had just arrived from the USA after resigning from the Acquisitions & Finance team at Greenberg Gibbons Commercial and selling most of my worldly possessions. The simple, clean, and functional design of Japan, from their gardens, temples, and teahouses - to their flag, a single red dot in a sea of white - inspired every part of the platform.

But it wasn't just Japan. Development followed over the next three years, on a bicycle through Europe - on a motorbike around Southeast Asia - and ultimately from the tip of South America back to the United States - programming, learning new languages, and surfing when I could along the way.

Just as each place expanded what I thought a food or language could be, so too did it expand all the things a place could be, from pop-up retail, offices tucked behind

Simple Asset Manager is the culmination of my experiences at Greenberg Gibbons Commercial, and a little work each day.

I hope you find it as enjoyable to use, as it was to create.