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cohenben
Helpful | Level 5
7 years ago

Is there a fix if my Dropbox file download keeps failing?

Every time I try to download a file I get a failed status in Chrome or Safari. When I download in Firefox it fails, however Firefox allows me to "restart" the download and it begins again where it le...
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  • chrismonico's avatar
    chrismonico
    7 years ago
    Good news here, the problem has been fixed...I was able to download a 23GB file from the web @ a consistent 30mb/sec...took 13 minutes. Dropbox support emailed me this morning to let me know:

    We've had our engineers working on this and the good news is the problem has been fixed. Please check again and you should find that the correct modified time is now displayed on files uploaded via the Dropbox website.

    Sorry for any inconvenience this caused.

    Thanks everyone

AJS1's avatar
AJS1
New member | Level 2
7 years ago

Dropbox downloads are still very poor on my system. Its seem Dropbox is a bit of a one trick pony; great for synch, poor for downloads or uploads or file management.

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