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Problem Downloading Large File
I have a large file (100GB) on Dropbox for which I've sent a link for a third party to download. That party has a professional optical fiber connection (1 giga). The party has advised that the file ...
Thanks for the suggestion. If I do that, it rather defeats the object of what I'm trying to achieve, which is to upload a file and make it easy for the recipient to download it. The recipient is not going to want to somehow have to reconstruct the file after doing 20+ individual downloads of smaller chunks. That is even assuming he is technically competent to do so. He just wants to download the file. I don't blame him. It's retrograde having to deconstruct a file only to reconstruct it.
It also highlights the secondary issue that people complain about repeatedly on this forum - that they cannot just send a link to a large folder to download as the system is not able to zip up large folders. So the recipients have to download multiple (sometimes 100s) of files individually. A suggestion to overcome that is to zip the files up before synchronising with Dropbox. That way there is only one large file to download... Not much point in doing that if you then have to chop the file up again.
I upgraded so that I could specifically transfer large files. It looks to me like I'll have to send the data via a hard disk, which defeats the whole object of upgrading for me. I've written to Dropbox support but have not heard back.
