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hmedina
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4 years ago

Compress on the cloud, download archive

I have a folder that contains mixed media (e.g. raw research data, images, text & binary files). It has thousands of files, and is over 600 GB in size (it contains my PhD thesis work). I would like t...
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Rich
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4 years ago
hmedina wrote:

a) Generate a compressed file, of archival quality (e.g. tar.gz), on the cloud

Dropbox doesn't have a feature to compress files. It can unpack them, but it can't create them.

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