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Quitt
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Upload large files (larger than 50GB)

Hello I've been provided with a shared folder from a professional Dropbox user (which I'm not!) to upload video files to him. He has plenty of storage space (> 2TB). My files which are to be uploade...
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Quitt
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Which is exactly what I don't understand. I just want to share files with someone, I have no use for a shared folder as is. But if I want to do so, I'm limited to 50GB. And entire industry gets blocked (and annoyed) with this. I appreciate the clarification of things, but this renders this service useless in our context.

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Doud
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago
I’ve got the same problems for sharing video masters >50 Gb, whatever you plan.
I’ve suggested this as an idea (but for me it’s a bug…) but idea was closed.
Just soooooooo stupid.

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