Did you mean:. We're back with another 'How we use Dropbox' story - so find out how Emmet uses Dropbox to organize a decade of photos here! A How do I download a zip file from my Dropbox account if a message says 'the folder is too large'? Labels: Error Messages Sync and upload. How do I download a zip file from my Dropbox account if a message says 'the folder is too large'? Harry K. New member Level 1. I upgraded to a Trial version and I am getting the same error message.
How do I access and download my legitimately uploaded files? Accepted Solutions. Re: Message " the folder is too large to download". Just an FYI for anyone still checking out this thread, the file size limit has since changed to 20 GB for downloading folders.
Note however that the folders must have fewer than 10, files inside. Sending a shared link to a folder which is under 20 GB should allow non-Dropbox users to download it to their machine without any issues, assuming the following:. Hope this helps to clarify matters!
Hi Harry, Are you downloading them from the desktop client or from the web version dropbox. Jonas J. Kind regards, J. Charles H. Who's your UX guy? How do I access the file I have bought a Pro licence to store!!? I don't believe it was like this before but I cannot find any evidence to prove it. I wouldn't have set my file up like this if it didn't work before. Andrew F. Or better yet, not have a limit at all? I'm a paying customer, and the very reason I subscribed to Dropbox in the first place was to have a cloud service to store and share large files with people.
If I wanted to deal with sharing smaller file sizes, I wouldn't even be paying for Dropbox's 2TB plan to begin with. I'd be using the Dropbox free version, or sites like Google Drive. HI Levi11 , the size limitation only applied to folders there are some technical reason: when you download a folder the server needs to compress the files into a single ZIP folder, and Dropbox sets some limits. However, there is no limit on downloading a file. If you compress make ZIP of your GB data, upload and share that file via link, others should be able to download it.
If you exceed that daily limit, your link will be banned. If this is the case like you say, why does Dropbox set limits on downloading large folders, but downloading large files are no problem to them? They're making their cloud software unnecessarily convoluted with these specific restrictions.
Again, I'd understand these limits if I were using a free version of Dropbox, but I'm not. I'm paying for a large plan only for them to still have limits on my account. But sharing via a link was surely created for when you do not need to collaborate but simply need to send someone a file as a one-off. What is not clear is that, even if you have a 1TB paid Dropbox account, you cannot send a file via a link that is over 1GB in size 0.
As Bradford R. I have not tried this yet but I guarantee that even if it does work I will then start to get customers complaining that they do not have the software to extract files from a zipped file. In fact, people are warned off opening zip files of any type for fear of viruses.
This either needs to be clear from the offset or changed so that you can send much larger files, even if you cannot allow us to send the entire 1TB as one file. Put simply, I became a paid user purely because I need to regularly send customers image files of 3, 4, 8 GB in size without them needing to add to the folder and when they do not have a Dropbox account themselves.
Ed is just feeding us a line of marketing baloney. It reminds me of the odious tactics of companies like GoDaddy, pure online scum.
Ed, since you represent the company, I guess you and your bosses don't really care. Well, you have lost my paid business, I got rid of everything in my DropBox account and only maintain the free version so I don't have to go through the sign-up nonsense if some dump shill sends me a DropBox link. I currently use several other paid pro cloud services to move huge files over the Web to client and this last year I have had to jump through ridiculous hoops just to get access to my own files on DropBox, and I am not going to go into the embarrassment you have caused me when clients have called up expressing their irritation of having to individually download 1.
I, like the others on this thread are power users. We are the ones who recommend to other less technical folks what we use to move files around the Web. Your suggestion is a workaround, and actually it only works if you are handling the files on a linked folder on your own computer. My problem is I uploaded a lot of data in project folders as archives and then unlinked them to free up space on my computer.
Besides that, as mentioned earlier, the re-link interface on my dropbox application is so buggy I can't get a clean copy back on my machine after numerous attempts Karl - Thanks for clarifying the issue your having here. The only difference is that the Basic user that may not have enough space on their Dropbox will have to download to their machine rather than saving on their Dropbox. Can you share a bit more the scenario in which you are having trouble to share links of files that are over 1GB?
If you used Selective Sync then yes, you would need to have them available on your machine first, which is not the case. Could you share some scenarios? Hi Ed, yes. Very simple. I am happy to provide them with a link because they don't all have Dropbox Pro accounts themselves. However, they are not able to download the files in the link to their basic Dropbox account if they have one because the file is more than 2GB and they cannot download the files to their PC because the files contain more than 1GB.
Thanks for that and sorry if you had different expectations about Dropbox. Click OK in the tool to get the job done. If the size of the shared Zip you wish to download does not exceed the Dropbox download limit, it is time you checked your hard drive — the chances are it does not have enough storage space, which leads to the Zip file is too large Dropbox issue. In a situation like this, we advise you to clean up your drive in order to free up some valuable disk space — otherwise, you will keep encountering download issues and even experience poor PC performance.
The list above is by no means exhaustive. There are other ways how to free up more hard disk space easily — make sure to check them all. There are also third-party solutions that can clean up your drive and free up a significant amount of your disk space.
Using them will actually save you a lot of time and effort. As such, you are free to choose any option that is dependable and reputable. In this article, we recommend you the following safe and effective tools:. Hopefully, now you know how to upload large files to Dropbox and what to do if the Zip file is too large Dropbox issue appears.
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