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JulieLubi
New member | Level 2
9 years ago
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Large Files Not able to be uploaded

Hello   I have 8 large MPG files, roughly around 70G each.  I've downloaded Dropbox onto my desktop PC and have been transferring the filesfrom my external drive into the Dropbox folder on my compu...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    9 years ago

    Why are they not uploading? You havent exactly given us much to go on.

    After you put them in to the Dropbox folder have you given them time? 70gb is a HUGE file and is going to take A LONG TIME to upload. I'd say at least a few days. Mousing over your Dropbox icon on the status bar will tell you what its doing.

     

    Please remember as well that to upload via the website there is a 10gb per upload limit (i.e. all files must be less than 10gb).

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Mark
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8 years ago

GoblinFilms - again youve not given us much to go on, but, as I said 10gb is the limit for the web uploader so larger than that and you need to use a computer. If it still says that check you have enough hard drive space.

 

henrythompson - again, please rememeber the website has an upload limit of 10gb per upload request. You will need to install via the desktop software - www.dropbox.com/downloading

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tomatpcb
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

True, accessing a given folder via browser has a 10Gb/file limit, but it appears that using the desktop appplication of Dropbox imposes a 30Gb/file limit on attempted upload (so a max. file size of under 30Gb).  Is there a way around this contraint, or should users look elsewhere for such large file transfers/storage (ie. sFTP via FileZila, etc.)?

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    Rich
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    8 years ago
    tomatpcb wrote:

    ... using the desktop appplication of Dropbox imposes a 30Gb/file limit on attempted upload (so a max. file size of under 30Gb).

    The website now has a file size limit of 20Gb. When using the desktop client there is no limitation on file size.

     

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      tomatpcb
      Explorer | Level 4
      8 years ago

      Hi Rich, I am basing my "30Gb maz. file size via desktop app" limitation assumption based on the message in this image.  How do I get around this impediment?

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        Rich
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        8 years ago

        That's referring to the available space on your hard drive; not in your Dropbox account.

         

        I have 51GB of available space on the local drive where Dropbox is located. If I try to move a folder into Dropbox that (in this case) is 463GB, I receive the same message that you receive, telling me that I need an additional 412GB of space. That's space that I would need on my hard drive, not Dropbox.

         

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