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Downloading a lot of very large files
Hello,
A client wants to send me about 150 large files via Dropbox. They are about 2GB each, so if I try to download them all at once, I get the inevitable "too big to .zip" message. I am currently selecting each one, then downloading it...which is very tedious. I absolutely detest any kind of "file syncing", but I wondered if there's a way I can create a nice empty folder on my PC, and, presumably using the Dropbox app, tell Dropbox to 'sync' it with the client's folder - without Dropbox, during its "syncing" process, thinking "ooh, you want to sync your empty folder with that folder full of files. I'll delete all those files on the Dropbox server for you so it's nicely synced".
So does anyone know if it's possible for me to do this? (To tell Dropbox to download all the client's files into the folder on my PC - and then obviously I'd unlink any connection between the folders, because otherwise some kind of disastrous "syncing" might happen, and nobody wants that!)
Thanks in advance for any suggestions or help!
Hi Hello Paul, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
You could ask the client to create a file transfer and send the files to you that way. Depending on their plan, they could send up to 100 GB in one go.
Keep me updated with any progress!
- Jay
Dropbox Staff
Hi Hello Paul, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
You could ask the client to create a file transfer and send the files to you that way. Depending on their plan, they could send up to 100 GB in one go.
Keep me updated with any progress!
Thanks for your suggestion, but it's very late at night here so there won't be a client around to send that as a transfer anyway. I'll just keep hammering away, downloading one file at a time (there are 239 files). What a completely useless platform Dropbox is, not even being able to select multiple files for download. Just awful. I'm so glad that I, and most people I work with, use the vastly superior FileMail and WeTransfer and not Dropbox.
I don't think syncing means what you think it means. IF you download the dropbox app they will download to a folder and just be there and on the web at the same time. I don't know of a good solution for sending larger groups of files like that without zipping them. I don't know that wetransfer will work.
-M
