Hi there,
Hope someone can help. I’m using Nextcloud on my Android phone, we have our own server running with it (great!).
I’ve got a problem though:
How can you download a whole folder? I need to download multiple folders from the server to my phone but the only way I can find is to download it file by file but the folders contain hundreds, maybe even thousands of files and subfolders!! That would be way too cumbersome. I can’t find another way, anyone who can help?
Thanks!
Ilona
Hi @Ilona,
navigate into the folder with the files you want to download, long click/press on a file which activates the long press menu, go to the menu in the now grey action br and choose select all then via the same menu choose download, done 
Hi Andy,
That works only for files, not for folders. The particular file/folder I’m talking about has a huge amount of folders. Folders in folders in folders in folders. And we’re talking about hundreds… So this would be very inconvenient…
To be able to download a whole folder would be the only way in this case…
Any chance this becomes possible?
Cheers, Ilona
Hi Andy,
That works only on a file base, not for a whole folder?
depends on your point of view, but basically yes. Currently the app doesn’t support arbitraty folder structures to be selected, just files within a folder (on that level)
The android app is great, works great, but it’s a huge deficiency. Is there a workaround?
In the Nextcloud app press the 3 dots next to the folder you wish to download and hit ‘sync’. The folder with its sub folders will download(sync) to your android device. I believe you will then find your content in
Android/media/com.nextcloud.client/nextcloud/…
I don’t know what ‘sync’ does (perhaps sync files only if they are already downloaded?) but it doesn’t download the folder. At least not in my experience.
I’m with OP I have a tall and wide folder structure that it would be of huge help to have synced on my phone. Right now I’m downloading files as I use them but it’s not going to help me when I’m offline. If anybody knows a workaround I’d be very happy to hear…
EDIT: Damn, I only just realised this thread is 5 years old…
EDIT 2: Disregard everything I said. After hours of tapping ‘sync’ up and down the folder structure many many times all of a sudden the Nextcloud app has started syncing some files. I can’t see progress anywhere or a list of files waiting to download for example but the files are starting to appear on the device one by one. Fingers crossed 