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Downloading Large Files
I'm a movie composer working remotely in a studio with 4G hotspot internet that has the occasional hiccup ... whilst spending the past few weeks in contact with the editor who has a full DP account a...
Hey Richard
it would be even better if you suggest sharing folders. If Editor and you have Dropbox Client installed and running, Editor can drop files in a folder on his machine and it automatically will appear on your Machine. Easy Peasy.
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Walter
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Dropbox StaffHey RicardoMorricone, sorry to hear you're having issues with this.
Can you clarify how large are the files you're trying to download and the troubleshooting steps you've attempted so far?
Note that you can only download a folder if it’s less than 20 GB and has fewer than 10,000 total files.
Keep me posted!
Hey there Walter ... thanks so much for popping by and looking at this.
I'm mainly downloading individual Quicktime movie files of around 5 - 10 gig but then also Zipped files around 3 or 4 gig, generally containing 3 or 4 smaller files of say a gig each ... those never total no more than say 15 gig. The larger files up to 30 gig are only ever one long movie file.
Do you think it should be possible to "resume" a download? I've wondered if this is something that Dropbox should do in the same way that many download manager extensions would normally do?
Once the files stopped downloading the only thing possible is a "reload".
Working remotely here on 4G ... it's possible to watch the download speed change as I'm bring stuff in via say Firefox ... it goes anything from 5 meg a second down to 1 meg a second ... but I never see it drop down to a lower level than that or drop out.
When the network errors occur and the file stops loading, the download speed freezes and the "time left to download" clock simply ticks by ... up and up second by second. Eventually it says "network error" (or variation of that) and you have to reload.
However ... as I mentioned probably around 20% of files are landing ok. So if this is caused by network dropouts of some sort ... doesn't Dropbox manage this and go "hey - hold the bus for a second there's a dropout - ok signals back - let's carry on down"?
Thanks Walter ... your thoughts much appreciated.
Best regards Richard
