It was closed by me because

1. it was largely too broad
 - your previous "on topic" question example was *specific*. How to download using a specific program (wget). 

 That there wasn't a "good" answer is irrelevant there.

 Your question effectively asked us to try rubbing every possible downloading software against it in the hopes that someone finds a solution. 

 If you'd said "I tried x and then tried scripting it and *almost* got what I want but not quite" then we could at least look at how far you'd gone and work onwards. That would be something specific we could work with.

2. You spent a lot of unnecessary time lamenting a company decision to not waste resources on people unwilling to reimburse them for the privilege. I chose this as the specific close reason because which the choices a company makes is not a "computer hardware or software" problem.
 
 Company choices to restrict functionality behind payment barriers is not a problem we can help with.

 > There have been several lengthy threads on the community forums bemoaning the fact that people and their clients can't use the server for what it is sold for.

 This is where you are making the mistake of assuming that what your provider of large files is paying for and what *you* are (not) paying for. Dropbox is an intermediary web service that gives you a desktop client and they restrict the desktop client (legitimately)
3. You had already answered your own question of `Is there really no workaround or solution to make this quicker than manually downloading each file individually?` with
 > they have said the only way is to pay for another Dropbox Pro account
 
 Which is the *supported* solution by your provider of choice.  
 Other solutions may result in your service being terminated, restricted or otherwise charged with malicious abuse. You blaming us or suing the Stack Exchange network for loss of access to your data, or otherwise encouraging SE to put itself in a legally dubious situation is against the [Terms of Service][1].

We are (generally) here for customers using their programs and data in ways that are consistent with the terms of service to which they agreed, subject to things like fair use and other light-handed approaches.

Your service has specifically blocked your use case behind a (legitimate) paywall. You either pay for that service, or you don't.


  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/legal