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Abara1
7 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Direct download always fails
I have to download a somewhat important 20 GB .zip file from dropbox, but everytime I try it fails at 50-60% and it's impossible to restart it. I'm downloading through direct link, because I dont hav...
- 7 years ago
Sorry to hear you feel this way Kristwithak - is there anything I can help with?
I understand that you've resolved your issue by now, yet, if you'd like me to have a look into it for you, please attach a screenshot in your next response and feel to provide any information you think might help our investigation (such as the browser you're using, the size and number of files you're trying to download etc.)
Thanks!
Abara1 - Did you have the chance to ask the original sender to send this to you in smaller batches ?(20.3 GB are a lot of data to download for any web browser - this is why I think it would work with smaller chunks of this zip file)
Kristwithak
New member | Level 2
They want to force you to pay. This always happens, dropbox is just really really bad. Heaps of people have this problem, and their people give the same generic unhelpful replies every single time. (Just google the issue)
It's a scam, just like how they want to charge every person for the storage of shared files.
Some people report being able to restart the download where it failed in Firefox, but this doesn't seem to be the case for Chrome.
Having the exact same problem today, and luckily I can separately download all the sub folders, but it's wasted a huge amount of time. I recommend to all my clients to use something else now, like WeTransfer.
Walter
7 years agoDropbox Staff
Sorry to hear you feel this way Kristwithak - is there anything I can help with?
I understand that you've resolved your issue by now, yet, if you'd like me to have a look into it for you, please attach a screenshot in your next response and feel to provide any information you think might help our investigation (such as the browser you're using, the size and number of files you're trying to download etc.)
Thanks!
Abara1 - Did you have the chance to ask the original sender to send this to you in smaller batches ?(20.3 GB are a lot of data to download for any web browser - this is why I think it would work with smaller chunks of this zip file)
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