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Jazdude
New member | Level 2
1 year ago

Paused sharing activity due to the daily limit for data sharing. What can I do?

I have tried to download a large file shared with me from a client a number of times and every time it is about to finish the folder gets corrupted and I get a suspension from Dropbox? 

Why is this happening? I am not the owner of the files I am trying to download, and I am pretty sure the owner of the files pays for the service, so why is this happening? 

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  • felixcat's avatar
    felixcat
    New member | Level 2
    10 months ago

    i didn't during my first ban. I regenerated my externally published dropbox link on may 30th, but then i got the exceeding bandwidth warning again on the 4th.  I deleted my publicly available dropbox link on the 4th.

    I just checked this morning with the other link, that's known only to me, and it worked again. I'm wondering if something wrong with my account and if it's safe to publicly share my link again. thank you or replying to me it's been quite frustrating 

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
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    10 months ago

    Thanks for the update and please let us know if anything else comes up in the future felixcat 

     

  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
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    10 months ago
    felixcat wrote:

    I'm wondering if something wrong with my account and if it's safe to publicly share my link again

    It sounds like what you are sharing has just become popular if I'm honest. If its working on links only known to you then there is no issue with Dropbox or your account. 

    Its been awhile since I've seen it, but, in the past there have been a few occasions where others (competitors?) have purposefully tried to max out the bandwidth on peoples account knowing that it causes issues. 

  • felixcat's avatar
    felixcat
    New member | Level 2
    10 months ago

    i wish that's the case lol. It's just my vacation photos from events i attended. I shared it publicly so people can save their own photos. it worked well or 5 years. but for some reasons i got hit with three strikes in a week. 

    some people suggested AI companies are harvesting my photos to teach their AI. that's kinda far fetch honestly. 

    You might be onto something. people can do it maliciously and write a script to repetitively download my content and max out my account

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