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I had the same problem, tried to download the 700MB file for 10 times without any success. Here is what I did to solve this problem: 1) I created the Dropbox folder in my DB account and saved the shared file in that folder.

(You have to choose 'Save to my Dropbox' option) 2) I installed the DB client: 3) For the DB folder on my computer I chose an option 'Selective Sync' and marked only the folder on my DB account, where I saved the shared file, because I don't want all other DB files on my computer. Here the link how to do 'Selective Sync': You can pause and resume your syncing: Hope this will help.

Works for me so far ). Проект Школы На 150 Мест. RIchard Since you do not understand the problem, try to follow this scenario. It would be great if you could shed light on the users and frankly hundreds of other users simple request.

You have spent the money on a DB business account so that you could put some large medium size files up to share with friends. Your friends do not have DB accounts but could sign up for the free account and install the DB client. They get 2G space allotment. You put 3 5G files into dropbox and you want to share them with a friend. They do not have a DB account and have a regular internet connection, how would you suggest they download your file? You have tried to share the link with them.

Garmin Vus010r G2 Vision Vus011r. You ave tried many different browsers, pc's and from many different locations across Canada. The DL fails 90% of the time.

If they switch to HSpeed internet on the same PC's, browsers, internet locations, it is successful 98% of the time. Yes there has been LOTS of troubleshooting from our corp IT with all the DB support resources that they have.It is not possible using DB in over 90% of the attempts. FYI, This is acknowledged by DB support and they have been working on my ticket for over two months.

Hence the above request and the numerous other threads in this community for the same problem. Looking to avoid the regular pontifications from people who either do not read or understand the questions then provide answers that are either incomplete or have nothing to do with the question. Eagerly awaiting an answer to resolve THIS DB, life long problem. I am trying for the 8th time today to download a 300 MB file. With no resume support, no doubt it will fail again.

If Dropbox is a download manager then it is the worst one I have ever come across. I will certainly not be using it myself. I have already complained to the company that forces me to use it as its only download source, and will also be complaining to the manufacturer of my device who in turn use that company to provide their hardware.

0/10 dropbox- you have forced me to spend an entire day on something that should have taken minutes.

The above mentioned solutions do not work anymore. Instead, open the folder you want to download and click to select individual files, or press Ctrl+ A to select all files. A row of buttons will appear above the list of files, click the Download button to download the selected files as a Zip compressed archive. EDIT: works as well, just be sure not to click the folder name itself, as it will open the folder instead of selecting it. The Download button will appear in the row of buttons above the folder list, and not in a drop-down menu as mentioned. Here is a way to download folders all at once.

I work for a law firm and We had a HUGE document production to download. 25 folders on the main page with subfolders inside. I was VERY glad I discovered this method.

It took minutes to do as compared to saving each document individually. The above options did not work for me so if they didn't work for you either, try this. Go to the opening screen for your project in Dropbox and click on the 'DOWNLOAD' button, then RIGHT click on 'Download as.zip' option and choose 'Save Target as'. This will permit you to navigate to your hard drive to save the zip file where you desire. To open the zip file, again right click and choose 'Open With' then 'WINZIP' (if that is your extraction program of choice) and another screen will open so you can then extract the files.