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Kmmckinley
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

sharing files - they stop playing after one hour

 I regularly share my  video ZOOM files with my clients , most of which are 1  to 1 hour and 30 minutes in length.   Several of them  have complained that the recordings stop after the one hour mark,...
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Walter
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6 years ago

Hey there Daniel wlodavsky; thanks for using Dropbox and welcome to the Community!

 

I'm not sure if this would do the trick for you, but have you considered using shared links to those files and then disabling downloads, if you're on a plan that offers that feature, be it our Professional plan or one of our Business ones for teams?

 

Apart from that you'll also be able to set a password to the shared links and set an expiry date as well if needed.

 

I hope this helps, Daniel. 

 

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Daniel wlodavsky
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago

Walter hi,

The problem is that our files length is more than 1 hour.

We do "Disable download" .

What can we do?

Daniel

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    Walter
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    6 years ago

    Thanks for the follow up, Daniel. 

     

    Since your video files are more than an hour and at this moment the preview of those on our website is capped at 1 hour, you may want to consider breaking up your recordings in two files before uploading them to Dropbox through a 3rd party app. 

     

    I know this is far from optimal, but I hope it helps!

     

    PS: If you'd like to suggest a change on this, I'd recommend posting it in the relevant section of our Community so other users can provide their own thoughts on this and up-vote it to show their interest.

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