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Error downloading folder through web client
I'm trying to download a large folder through the web client. After I click download I'm prompted to save a small file called unspecified.htm, which saves and then nothing else happens. I'm sure I've...
You cannot download over 1gb of data via the browser. You have to download the Dropbox "application".
See link: https://help.dropbox.com/desktop-web/download-entire-folders
Agreed, there is no error message that appears to inform the user that a specific error has occurred, or that the user is attempting to do something that doesn't work.
Is the issue with downloading the whole folder at once because zip files are incapable of exceeding 1GB due to the coding or something? Seems odd that it's an issue in (basically) 2017.
I have backupfolder for my websites - ziped in tar. Files are often bigger as 2 GB - but it seems is impossible to download on a disk via web interface. Sometimes it goes but today definitely not. Dropbox is not anymore service I can advice to our customer as safety variant. We will start looking another service.
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