Dropbox – How to Download Large Files

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I cannot see how to download some videos to my Dropbox. Somebody shared a folder of videos with me. If I try to download the whole folder, I get an "error message".

The zip file is too large, please add it to your Dropbox

(I'm not keen on buying Dropbox space for myself, just to download a friend's file.)

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I read I can download individual files but I don't see the option. When I play the video I get a message saying

The clip displayed is a preview. To view the entire video, download or add it to your Dropbox.

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Best Answer

The download link when download a folder is in a completely different place to the download link to download individual files.

The download link when downloading a folder is as the screenshot in the question shows, is bright blue and in the top right.

But the download link for downloading files, is black and in the bottom right.

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Filtering large files from Dropbox

There doesn't seem to be a way to do this at the time. Using Windows shortcuts is one possibility to make it as though the files are located in the same folders, however, it seems like it would get a bit complicated if there are a lot of folders.

There is a feature request for this exact issue, which you can vote on.

Other features you may want to look for is the ability to watch any folder, which you might be able to use in conjunction with your file system to create a limited set of folders to sync. Another one that might help is excluding certain file extensions, this would help if all the large files are of the same type (e.g. .exe, .avi, etc.).

How to download a Dropbox folder someone shared me

There's kind of a workaround. Add

?dl=1

at the end of the link that was shared with you. This will download the entire folder as a neatly zipped archive.

Note: This will not work with folders > 20GB or with more than 10,000 files.

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