I use Dropbox as online storage for programs I install on client computers.
I use this kind of command to download programs from Dropbox to computers:
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/obxhn33o5y5grr8vs9q0h/AKPbHMNzHAhk6-D7vuOo_CU?rlkey=buytm7fk9ixjwr0yjbxdpzfp1&dl=1" -OutFile "c:testdownload.zip"
and than expand the archive and install program with powershell script…
Up until end of April this command always worked fine. I first noticed on 30th of April that this command runs into a problem. Download fails more than 50% of downloads. I tested this command on different computers, different internet providers, different countries even, but I get the same problem every time. Tested with one free Dropbox account and one with subscription.
Anybody else experiences the same problem? Anybody has any idea, why download fails?
I was checking traffic with Wireshark and got a lot of packet with errors while downloading, but unfortuantely I don’t know how to troubleshoot well with Wireshark.
You can test with above command. It has 10MB test file inside, created with fsutil, if ZIP file is less than 10.247KB it’s a fail.
I contacted Dropbox, but they say, they don’t expirience any issues on their side.
Regards