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Download to this Mac

In the Mac app, Download puts a whole folder or project back on your Mac, file by file, with its folders as they were. No zip to unpack.

1 min readUpdated 3 November 2026

01Get a folder back

  • In the Total Vault app on your Mac, right-click a folder or project and choose Download.
  • Download to this Mac shows how many files and how much space they need.
  • Choose Choose folder & download, pick where they go, and they arrive with the original folder structure.
In a web browser, Download gets the same folder as a zip instead.

02What stays the same

Downloading copies files to your Mac. Everything stays in your vault, backed up, exactly as it was.