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Re:Engineering Dropbox Transfer: Making simple even simpler by godzillabrennus on Friday June 26, 2020 @12:40PM (#23653968)
Great work on this. I had to send 100GB files last year (1TB in total) and it was extremely difficult to send them as-is. Most clients that upload data choked while attempting it. Had to break the files up into smaller ones using a compression tool. It actually increased the file size overall but the transfer could then be facilitated.

Hope to see you guys add a feature like DocSend next. It’s like a missing puzzle piece from a utility perspective. I have no idea who downloads a shared file once a url is generated. Would be nice to request emails and get alerts when it’s downloaded.

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Re:Engineering Dropbox Transfer: Making simple even simpler by aroch on Friday June 26, 2020 @12:58PM (#23654170)
If you use 7zip on Windows or just split/cat on macOS/Linux, you can split without compressing or archiving, saving you unnecessary CPU cycles (and space).
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Re:Engineering Dropbox Transfer: Making simple even simpler by nicksundin on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:04PM (#23654248)
Hi! Sending groups of files was definitely one of the focus areas here so hope Transfer can be helpful in this role.

Re: Tracking content, we actually do provide this in Transfer. If you specify a set of email recipients, rather than copying a shared link, we provide a few tracking features for you.

1) Record who has viewed or downloaded your content. 2) Remind your recipient if the content you sent is about to expire. 3) (Optionally) notify you to let you know when your recipient has downloaded your content.

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Re:Engineering Dropbox Transfer: Making simple even simpler by jdxcode on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:00PM (#23654207)
You gotta wonder how much easier it would be to put a stamp on a letter with an SD card in it sometimes
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Re:Engineering Dropbox Transfer: Making simple even simpler by raun1 on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:03PM (#23654241)
No Syncthing, rsync, or multi-connection FTPS/SFTP with split archives?
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