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Tobiasbryld
New member | Level 2
8 years ago

problem with downloading big video from Dropbox

Hi, i have created a movie, and sent it to my computer over dropbox. The movie file is 4.1 GB, so it is pretty big. Every time i press download on my computer, it never completes the download, and i ...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    8 years ago
    You can press 'add to my Dropbox' if you have enough quota. If you dont then it may give an error, but, I'm not 100% sure now.

    If not I'm afraid you may struggle if your ISP is flaky - the issue is (sadly) all to do with how well the ISP can handle large files.
Mark's avatar
Mark
Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
8 years ago
Download and install Dropbox on your machine to let it down that way - it downloads in 4mb chunks then rather than in one big go.

www.dropbox.com/install
  • Tobiasbryld's avatar
    Tobiasbryld
    New member | Level 2
    8 years ago

    But what if i got the file from a link? so the file is shared to me

     

    • Mark's avatar
      Mark
      Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
      8 years ago
      You can press 'add to my Dropbox' if you have enough quota. If you dont then it may give an error, but, I'm not 100% sure now.

      If not I'm afraid you may struggle if your ISP is flaky - the issue is (sadly) all to do with how well the ISP can handle large files.
  • Tobiasbryld's avatar
    Tobiasbryld
    New member | Level 2
    8 years ago

    Hi Mark,

    So am i ment to synchronize from Dropbox.com to my application on my computer?

     

    • Mark's avatar
      Mark
      Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
      8 years ago
      You dont have to, no, but if you have a poor internet connection it is a suitable work around

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