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Can't Upload to Business Dropbox
I am having difficulty uploading files and syncing folders in a work related shared folder. I had a basic account and then tried a free 30 day trial of the business account. Now that a a co-worker h...
Hi Walter,
My mistake, I responded to the wrong thread. I see that the web upload limit is 50GB. If I want to upload 5TB of data from an external drive, am I to do so in 100 batches?
Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorAh, I see now; thanks for clarifying this!
For starters, the best solution for such an amount of data would most likely be our API.
In case you have to do this via the website, you'd need to do it in small batches and again, it's not guaranteed that it will work as uploading files to dropbox.com is limited not only by the size of the files you're trying to upload, but also the number of files and the bandwidth and stability of your internet connection.
Supposing that you're using the desktop application, you can alternatively move a small batch of your files into your Dropbox Folder, then apply selective sync or Smart Sync settings to free up space on your computer's hard drive and move on to the next batch of files.
Just make sure that the desktop app reports that it's 'Up to date' after copying/moving your files from your external drive and upon applying your selective or Smart Sync settings and you should be good to go.
On a side note on this, files uploaded through the API must be 350GB or smaller so you might want to consider utilizing one of our current app integrations.
In any case, please keep me posted on your progress trodriguez2011!
