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Amit Sahu 87Amit Sahu 87 

how to export files from salesforce

I did not find any documentation on how to export files from salesforce. I see we can export Attachments using Dataloader. But does Dataloder support File export also?
SwethaSwetha (Salesforce Developers) 
HI Amit,
You should be able to do "Content document" object export. I've not tried myself but there are also third party tools like https://sfdcfileexporter.com/ that you might want to explore

If this information helps, please mark the answer as best. Thank you
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Amit
As you must have access to the files, explicitly, through ContentDocumentLink or through direct ownership of the ContentVersion records, the best way to export all the files from Salesforce is to initiate a Data Export, including files, in the Setup.  This will export .zip files that include a full listing of ContentVersion, ContentDocument and ContentDocumentLink as well as zips that contain the VersionData for each file that can then be used in a load.  Best of luck.  Please mark this answer the best as it surely is :)
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