Large files wont download with dropbox

Jay Community Moderator Dropbox dropbox. Did this post help you? If so, please give it a Like below. Still stuck? Ask me a question! View solution in original post. Thanks very much for your detailes and helpful support. I already have the desktop app installes, but did not know about selective sync. This will solve y problem. Glad to hear this will help out, Walter L. The way we work is changing. Share and discover new ways to work smarter with Dropbox in our community.

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Help center Community Dropbox learn Contact support. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Click on Open to allow your File Explorer open the file.

And here is an option for those who are not keen on using the Dropbox desktop client: in such a case, what you should do is simply break you large Zip file into smaller parts so that the person you are willing to share it with could download them separately. You might as well automate the splitting process by using a file compression utility. For instance, the free 7-Zip tool will come in very handy for this purpose.

Thus, you are free to install it on your PC. Then right-click on the file you wish to split and configure the utility to break the Zip up into smaller files.

You can save them to your My Dropbox desktop folder or upload them directly to 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. Jane Community Moderator Dropbox dropbox. Did this post help you? If so please give it a Like below. If so please press the ' Accept as Best Answer ' button to help others find it.

Still stuck? Ask me a question! Questions asked in the community will likely receive an answer within 4 hours! View solution in original post. Then you won't get the "download button" in the web interface. What I'm trying to do is take the files off Dropbox and save them on a hard drive. I don't want to lose the files but it seems very difficult to move files from Dropbox to laptop. I'm almost trapped into keeping them in Dropbox!!! Condescending talk of I'm having the same issue and can't download the file using the web interface.

I click the download button and nothing happens. Hi Jane Thanks for the reply. Trying to download a different file doesn't work. The error message says "There was an error downloading your file. You'd think that I ought to be able to download my own files, right? Error Message. The way we work is changing.