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christopherdawes
Explorer | Level 3
8 months ago

Sending large files to dedicated email address and have them added to the storage automatically

I was hoping to avoid uploading and downloading a 125GB file multiple times that I already have in WeTransfer. Other services allow for a dedicated email address to send large files to that will auto...
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Walter
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8 months ago

I see, thanks for the clarification and the additional details there christopherdawes - most appreciated.

In that case, can you have a look at our Email to Dropbox feature and let me know if it would work for you, if we were to adjust the file size limit for example, or if you'd like to see a different feature? 

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
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    8 months ago
    Walter wrote:

    if we were to adjust the file size limit for example, or if you'd like to see a different feature?

    It's not just a file size that Dropbox controls. No email system that the message would pass through before reaching Dropbox would be able to handle a file of that size.

    It would have to be a feature that would accept a direct URL to a file and then download that file from the source directly to our Dropbox account.

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