iCloud – How to Download Folder from iCloud Drive Web

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I want to download a folder from iCloud Drive using the web interface (iCloud.com). The only problem is, since it is not zipped, I cannot download the folder. Is there a way to download the folder without having to sync the entire content of my iCloud Drive with my computer?

Best Answer

Yes, you can do this. The following assumes that you're already logged-in to your iCloud account and you have the ability to download files to your local drive.

  1. Navigate to your iCloud Drive in any browser.
  2. Change your browser's default download location to wherever you want the files to be located. You must do this now because you can't select a new location once you click the 'download' button later.
  3. Go into the folder that you want to download. You can't just highlight the folder and try to download the folder and its contents from here. You actually have to go into the folder first.
  4. Select all the files you want to download. Do this either by selecting each one or by doing a select-all keyboard command.
  5. Once all the files are selected, go to the top of the iCloud screen and click the 'download' icon (cloud with arrow going down). This will download all the selected files to your default download location (set in step 2). The files should not be downloaded in a zip format, they should come down exactly as they're stored in iCloud.

All the files will download which, in essence, is what you wanted by selecting the folder and trying to download that first.

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