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Andres Garrido's avatar
Andres Garrido
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

problem with Dropbox Saver

Hello,    Days ago I could save some files without problem, but now when trying to save certain files, the progress stops from one moment to another. I have tried from other links and with other ...
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gaganov's avatar
gaganov
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

Greg-DB you're right, transfer progress gets stalled at ~50-80%. The Dropbox team is investigating it for 6 years already. They can try something like tus protocol. 

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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
3 years ago
gaganov wrote:

... They can try something like tus protocol. 

gaganov, No, they cannot.

You are messing upload (what tus deals with) and download (what actually happens - Dropbox server downloads from provided link).

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    gaganov
    Helpful | Level 5
    3 years ago

    Здравко anyway there must be a way to handle that on their end somehow. 

    Downloading big files by URL shouldn't be a problem.

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