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KimberleyLeahy
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago
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Downloading large files

I'm having trouble downloading anything over 2GB. It seems like its downloading but when it comes to decompression stage it errors saying the network connection was lost. So then I have to go into ...
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  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    6 years ago

    Hi KimberleyLeahy; welcome to the Dropbox Community!

     

    Can you please let me know if you get the same results on another browser and/or after clearing your browser's cache?

     

    Thanks a bunch Kimberley!

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djlopeznyc
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

How is this problem flagged as 'SOLVED" when there was never a solution?

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rabbit565
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

there are abunch of threads with this same issue, and they all state SOLVED but they are not .

Whats going on here.....no one is using virus, everyon has stable internet, tried multiple browsers , internet connection is storng and stable .

this should not be happeing when with such a bog company , the leader in online storage . 
we sould able to download a file to out computer reliably 

my file isnt even that big , 2gb. still exact same averyone is describing 

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