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pmjboyle
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Having Trouble Moving Files Out of Dropbox With rclone

Hello community, My team has ~115 TB of data stored in Dropbox. Last week, I abruptly received word that the unlimited storage option for the plan we've been using is being "sunsetted", effective N...
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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
3 years ago

Hi pmjboyle,

Unfortunately, Dropbox doesn't allow unlimited transfer rate (or if allow it's for limited period only). That's why you're receiving such error. Instead of increasing parallelism, better limit explicitly to one download at a time. Would works much more stable in spite slower.

Hope this helps.

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    pmjboyle
    Explorer | Level 3
    3 years ago

    So far, this is working out better: 

    rclone copy --progress --transfers=40 --copy-links --tpslimit 10 ${REMOTE}:${DIR} ${LOCAL}/${DIR}

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