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curl: (18) transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining
I am trying to download a 6gig zip file over a connection speed of 1Mb/s, which is pretty slow, but from what I have been doing has been consistent. When I get to about 4.1Gb downloaded the dropbox s...
Anything over 2gb on a web connection will probably fail, this is not dropbox its probably your ISP, TCP sockets are not rock solid, they will fail, its just a matter of when, when, the more time you spend on a task the more and more likely that % chance of fail increases.
The only way to get around this is by downloading your file in chunks, sadly using the web browser applet will not cut it, you will need to download the dropbox app for that, it downloads files in 4mb chunks, and if one fails it can resume, the web app does not have this functionality.
Either that or rent an amazon web server somewhere, log in via remote desktop, download the file there, use winrar to chop it up into 6 files of 1gb each, then reupload to dropbox, then on your current pc download the 1gb files one at a time, if one fails redownload, once there tell winrar to extract the file from the multi file parts and it will remake the single 6gb file.
Other than those 2 options i just dont see how else you would be able to do it.
I hope this helps you a little.
