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I had a hard time downloading large amounts of data from a link that was shared with me.
Recently i had to download large amounts of data from a public shared link to my desktop and hence i was wrapped around by chain of problems and had to refer to numerous forums to solve a basic issue...
Nancy
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThanks for your post, hoji11.
To clarify, you received a shared link to download files from and not a link to a file transfer, correct?
In general, if you copy files over to your Dropbox account, and you have the desktop app installed, then this will also require that you have enough hard drive space on your computer for them to sync locally.
Can you clarify though what you mean when asking why Dropbox creates a copy of the offline files, if you have to copy them over to your external drive?
If you copied the files over from the shared link to your Dropbox account, then you should be able to find one copy of these files within your local Dropbox folder (whether it’s saved on your internal drive, or an external one).
Let me know, if I’ve misunderstood something and we'll check this further.
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