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Large Files Not able to be uploaded
Hello I have 8 large MPG files, roughly around 70G each. I've downloaded Dropbox onto my desktop PC and have been transferring the filesfrom my external drive into the Dropbox folder on my compu...
Why are they not uploading? You havent exactly given us much to go on.
After you put them in to the Dropbox folder have you given them time? 70gb is a HUGE file and is going to take A LONG TIME to upload. I'd say at least a few days. Mousing over your Dropbox icon on the status bar will tell you what its doing.Please remember as well that to upload via the website there is a 10gb per upload limit (i.e. all files must be less than 10gb).
Rich
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Super User II
tomatpcb wrote:
... using the desktop appplication of Dropbox imposes a 30Gb/file limit on attempted upload (so a max. file size of under 30Gb).
The website now has a file size limit of 20Gb. When using the desktop client there is no limitation on file size.
Hi Rich, I am basing my "30Gb maz. file size via desktop app" limitation assumption based on the message in this image. How do I get around this impediment?
- Rich
That's referring to the available space on your hard drive; not in your Dropbox account.
I have 51GB of available space on the local drive where Dropbox is located. If I try to move a folder into Dropbox that (in this case) is 463GB, I receive the same message that you receive, telling me that I need an additional 412GB of space. That's space that I would need on my hard drive, not Dropbox.
Thank you, Rich, for helping me interpret the dialog boxes that Dropbox generates.
To overcome my particular impediment (not much room on C:\ drive, the default location for the Dropbox folder/subfolders, but plenty of room on my machine's E:\ drive) how do I change this default: C:\Users\<username>\Dropbox to be E:\Users\<username>\Dropbox?
Whoops, nevermind, found the Preferences command. Thanks again!
- Rich
Just to clarify, that's not a message from Dropbox, but from your operating system. Windows is telling you that you don't have enough space.
If you need to move your Dropbox folder to a new drive, you can do it from Preferences.
