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anonymous
11 months ago

"The network connection was lost" error when downloading a link.

I’m trying to download a 28 GB link file sent by a friend and cannot complete saying “Network connection lost” my network is fine. I’m using a MacBook Pro Intel Catalina 10.15.7  
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Jay
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11 months ago

Are you able to download the file from a different network to see if this helps?

Otherwise, could you ask the owner of the shared link to create a Dropbox Transfer for you to download the file?

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anonymous
11 months ago

You guys are just looking for money, your service is garbage I would never use it.

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