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michael campbell
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Uploads get stuck

During the past few weeks I've needed to upload several 15GB .rar files.  Each time, the upload process gets stuck on 9 minutes or so remaining.  I have to refresh the browser and then start uploadin...
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michael campbell's avatar
michael campbell
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

I have dropbox set to 'online only' it doesn't appear to work, so I manually set it to online only by right clicking on each folder and choosing that option (windows).

 

I then drag a 15GB file to one of my dropbox sub folders and choose copy rather than move.  I expected it to begin uploading directly to the dropbox server, but instead it copies it locally to the dropbox folder and then uploads it.  This results in two local copies of the 15GB file.

 

How can I bypass it creating a second copy locally, and instead send it straight to dropbox (same as when using the website, which incidentally always fails with big files, hence me trying the app).

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