Dropbox direct download zip file too large

2 Answers2. Show activity on this post. 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 bltadwin.rus: 3.  · Now, as per the rules of DropBox, it’s not so easy for you to download a shared file from the dropbox that size is 1GB. While downloading a large file, you have to get an error that is “Zip file is too large” pop-up on your computer system. Zip file is too large error.  · The File is too large to download message is referring to the limits for downloading a folder of files, which is 1GB in size or containing 10, files. Anything above those limits will produce an error if they try to download the folder whole.

How large are the files? If you put them in a zip file, will that compress them to under 20 MB? Another option is to upload the files to a cloud storage site, like FilesAnywhere, Dropbox, etc., and then put the link to those files in a file for buyers to download when they place the order. level 1. Comment deleted by user · 7y. level 2. TheInnocentEye. · 7y. Sounds as if the folder is too large to be reliably downloaded. How big is it? Without getting too complex, some file types offer better codecs, that is, the process used to compress your video. An MP4, for example, when converted to an FLV file, will be a larger file overall, as the codecs of an FLV are less efficient and result in less compression/file shrinkage.

When the Zip file you receive through a download link exceed the Dropbox download file limit, occurs the ZIP file is too large to download error message. Dropbox has a one GB download limit for its folder/file downloads. Thus, Dropbox users can’t download Zip files that exceed one GB directly from their web accounts. This maximum one GB limit also applies to shared links whether the person downloading the Zip has a Dropbox account or not. So that’s probably why the Zip file is too large. You cannot download the entire folder without adding it to your Dropbox first. Since you said the folder is too large for your Dropbox, you will need to download every individual item separately like you would download any other file from the Internet (right-click the item, then Save Link/Target As). When trying to download a large zip file from your Dropbox account, you may get the message 'the folder is too large to download'. Learn why this is happening.