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knutk
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6 months ago

Message: Too many files... when downloading

Hi I am downloading several folders from my Dropbox and get a message (translated): Tried to pack to many files.  First I got it when I chose several folders, and that is understandable. But after ...
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    Rich
    6 months ago
    knutk wrote:

    I am downloading several folders from my Dropbox and get a message (translated): Tried to pack to many files.

    When downloading a folder or multiple files at one time as a Zip file, it needs to be less than 250GB in size with fewer than 10,000 files.

     

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Rich
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6 months ago
knutk wrote:

I am downloading several folders from my Dropbox and get a message (translated): Tried to pack to many files.

When downloading a folder or multiple files at one time as a Zip file, it needs to be less than 250GB in size with fewer than 10,000 files.

 

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