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bluedisk

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#1569752 10-Jun-2016 20:33

timmmay:

Try a file upload/download service that supports resuming uploads and downloads. Even FTP supports that. I thought Dropbox supported pause/resume with their rich client, but I've never tried with huge files.

Your best bet might be to find an internet cafe nearby that will do it for you, or even one anywhere in the country and use overnight courier. Still faster than shipping to Europe.

Yes I believe the problem is with pause/resume but I'm not techie enough to troubleshoot further.

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bluedisk

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#1569754 10-Jun-2016 20:34

wellygary:

Sounds like D/Box is playing silly buggers with the files,

have you tried Google Drive or another cloud service?

no, not yet

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bluedisk

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#1569755 10-Jun-2016 20:37

timmmay:

Upload to Amazon S3 with CloudBerry, which has chunked upload (aka resume) function. Download will be pretty fast for them too. Alternately S3 browser or some other product. Some may upload in parallel which would make better use of your bandwidth. Getting an AWS account is easy, using S3 is easy enough.

This sounds like an interesting solution. I have never heard of Amazon S3 or Cloudberry so will need to investigate further.

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bluedisk

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#1569756 10-Jun-2016 20:39

mxpress:

Hmmm, well in that case, strange things are afoot. Have you tried contacting Dropbox and explaining the issue?

No not yet, thought I'd ask here first as some of the "help" desks I've found to be far from helpful.

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#1569761 10-Jun-2016 21:02

Amazon Web Services is the biggest cloud provider in the world. S3 is Simple Storage Service. It's basically a web server that lets you upload and file and serves it to anyone you allow it to. It's more than that, but that's what it is to you. It's also free for the first year, within preset limits, which you'll probably go over, but it'll be a discount.

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#1570942 13-Jun-2016 12:18

um just outta curiosity how big is your dropbox box

from dropbox's help page

File size limits

Files uploaded via the desktop app or mobile apps have no file size limit.

Files uploaded on dropbox.com must be 20 GB or smaller.

All files uploaded to your Dropbox must be smaller than your storage quota. For example, if your account has a storage quota of 2 GB, you can upload one 2 GB file or many files that add up to 2 GB. If you are over your storage quota, Dropbox will stop syncing.

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