Okay, just tried downloading a 265 zipped file, from Dropvox to VDR, and it worked fine. I'm not sure what problem you're having. I'd try resetting your iPhone by holding down the sleep/wake and home buttons for 10 seconds, then letting go. Your phone will restart, and this may fix things.
Thanks, Ari On 4/9/16, Arianna Sepulveda <[email protected]> wrote: > I've easily downloaded a zip file from Dropbox to VDR that was 268 MB > before with no problems. Granted, this was with the version just > before 4.0, but I'll try again and see what happens. I also don't zip > a folder--I just select a group of files in Windows Explorer and > right-click them or use the applications key and go to the send to > menu, then press enter on compressed zipped folder. > > > Thanks, > Ari > > On 4/9/16, Melissa Tucker <[email protected]> wrote: >> Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems the larger the file is, the harder >> it >> is to have voice dream sync it. Smaller files are much easier. I don't >> know about zepped files, it is easier for me to unzip them on the >> computer >> and let them sync to dropbox. >> >> On Apr 9, 2016, at 11:32 PM, Mauricio Molina <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hi Sieghard and Richard, >> >> Here is some additional background in case it helps: >> >> I have been using the Dream Reader and Drop Box combination for easily >> over >> a year without issue and I have always preferred to zip folders with >> multiple mp3 files. >> I use the Windows 10 Send to/Compressed (Zipped) Folder option in the >> application key context menu to zip folders; this has always worked in >> the >> past. >> I only have one Drop Box account so it is not possible that I am using >> the >> incorrect Drop Box account. >> When I use my PC to add zipped items into the Drop Box desktop >> application, >> the items are visible on the two PCs on which I have Drop Box installed >> but >> are not visible in the Drop Box on my iPhone. If the zipped folder is not >> visible in the Drop Box app, it would make sense that it would also not >> be >> visible in the Dream Reader app. >> Folders that are not compressed and individual/single mp3 files are >> visible >> in the Drop Box and Dream Reader app. >> I experimented by zipping a selection of files instead of a folder, >> thinking >> that the number of folder levels may have something to do with the issue >> being experienced, but this did not help. >> >> At this point I am going to pursue this problem as a Drop Box issue. >> >> Mauricio >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf >> Of Sieghard Weitzel >> Sent: Saturday, April 9, 2016 11:21 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: RE: Latest Version of Dream Reader and Adding Files from Drop >> Box >> >> Hi Mauricio, >> >> I just zipped a folder containing a bunch of audio book files in the >> iTunes >> format and copied it into the Voice Dream folder in Dropbox. I still had >> a >> file in that folder with last September’s Apple Event which was in MP3 >> format, so just two files in the folder, the MP3 file and the zipped >> folder. >> I then opened Dropbox on my iPhone, tapped on the Files tab at the bottom >> and then I double tapped on the Voice Dream folder and both files were >> there >> including the zipped folder. >> >> I then downloaded Voice Dream to my 6S Plus since I never had it on that >> phone. I went to the Settings and enabled Dropbox, then tapped on Add at >> the >> top right, selected Dropbox and first I was asked to allow access to >> Dropbox >> from Voice Dream which I did, once I was in Dropbox I selected the Voice >> Dream folder and again both files showed up with a Download button next >> to >> each. I tapped download next to the zipped file which was about 98 Mb and >> after about 20 seconds the file was there in my Voice Dream library and I >> was able to start playing it. >> >> I am not sure what is wrong with your zipped files, how to you zip them? >> Do >> you a third-party application or just the built-in function Windows 7 and >> also 10 has? >> Also, if you check the properties of one of your zipped folders by right >> clicking on it and selecting properties (or you can use the Alt+Enter >> shortcut for Properties in Windows Explorer) what is the extension of >> your >> zipped file/folder? >> >> >> Regards, >> Sieghard >> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf >> Of Mauricio Molina >> Sent: Saturday, April 9, 2016 10:42 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: RE: Latest Version of Dream Reader and Adding Files from Drop >> Box >> >> Richard, >> >> The issue is that when accessing the Drop Box folder from within Dream >> Reader, Dream Reader does not see any of my zipped folders; it does, >> however, see folders not zipped. What I just learned while writing this >> message is that I cannot see the zipped folders using the Drop Box app >> either. The zipped folders are only visible on my PC version of Drop >> Box…Interesting. This, then, leads me to believe that perhaps this is a >> Drop >> Box app issue? >> >> Mauricio >> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf >> Of Richard Turner >> Sent: Saturday, April 9, 2016 9:07 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: RE: Latest Version of Dream Reader and Adding Files from Drop >> Box >> >> I just downloaded a zip mp3 book from my DropBox without any issues. >> There is now a download button to the right of the file. >> >> Does this file end in .zip and not something else? >> >> Richard >> >> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf >> Of Mauricio Molina >> Sent: Saturday, April 9, 2016 7:33 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Latest Version of Dream Reader and Adding Files from Drop Box >> >> Hi All, >> >> Since the recent update to Dream Reader, it appears the method to add >> audiobooks to Dream Reader from Drop Box has changed. Prior to the latest >> update, the audiobook would be placed in a zipped format in Drop Box and >> found using the “Add” button in Dream Reader. Since the update, Dream >> Reader >> does not see the zipped items in Drop Box though it does see the mp3 >> files >> when placed in a non-zipped folder. 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