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Dropbox download of "Encyclopedia of Electronic Components Volume 1"
on my product page, I cannot download the pdf of "Encyclopedia of Electronic Components Volume 1" to dropbox, it just starts to download instead, the other formats works fine.
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Hello Asbjorn,
Thanks for your interest in the Encyclopedia of Electronic Components Volume 1. In your Account Setting, and then under Dropbox and Kindle settings do you have the PDF box marked?
Best regards,
Paul Fichera
Customer Service Representative
O'Reilly Media -
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Yes, All the other books are fine, only this book that I cannot download to dropbox in pdf format. I have quite some books, all is good on pdf format.
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Hello Asbjorn,
I did notice the PDF of this title is 412 MB so depending on the space in your Dropbox this might be why the PDF is not feeding over. I hope this helps and have a great day!
Best regards,
Paul Fichera
Customer Service Representative
O'Reilly Media -
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I have more than 100gb available, so that's not the problem
When you download files from my account, you get an dropdown for each file to select to download the file, or to send it to dropbox, on that file, this dropdown is not enabled.
It worked fine before the last update, and btw, why did it increase from 20MB to 412MB on this revision? -
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Hello Asbjorn,
Sorry if I'm not understanding correctly, but are you saying that you aren't seeing "Send to Dropbox" under the "Send Ebook" option on the "Your Account" page on oreilly.com? I'll touch base with our ebooks team concerning the file size increase. I also wanted to let you know that O'Reilly has a 100% satisfaction guarantee, and more information on this can be found here: http://shop.oreilly.com/category/customer-service/oreilly-guarantee.do.
Best regards,
Paul Fichera
Customer Service Representative
O'Reilly Media -
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Yes, but only on the PDF file for this book only.
All other books, no problem, all other formats for this book is ok, but PDF format for this book, when I click that button, it just starts to download, instead of giving me the menu to download to dropbox. and it happened with the last revision of the book. -
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Hello Asbjorn,
What it sounds like is happening is you're clicking the yellow "PDF" button not the "Send Ebook" and then choosing the "Send to Dropbox" option. You will want to please choose the "Send Ebook" button not the "PDF" button. I just tested using the "Send Ebook" button for this title and then choosing to send it to Dropbox, and it didn't start downloading, but did send it to Dropbox.
If you need any further assistance with this I can forward on your post to one of our book techs as they might have further suggestions for you.
Best regards,
Paul Fichera
Customer Service Representative
O'Reilly Media -
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The problem is that send ebook, doesn't always download all books, that is a problem with most of the books, not all formats are downloaded, so that's why I download each format separately.
For this book I only got the mobi and epub format with send ebook, not daisy and pdf, so I had do download those separately.
And clicking each button, gives me send to dropbox, but not the pdf format, on this book.. -
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Hello Asbjorn,
I'm sorry that I wasn't able to find a solution to the issue you are describing. I have forwarded this on to one of our book techs as they might have more insight on to why this is happening.
Best regards,
Paul Fichera
Customer Service Representative
O'Reilly Media -
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I thought it could be that the book was registered wrong, so I checked the html now, and interestingly enough, the html is different on these, on the pdf, the <a class="btn download-bin" element for the pdf have this empty attribute: data-dropbox_sync=""
but for the other formats, that attribute have an url inside it, not empty like for the pdf format. -
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Hello Asbjorn,
I did get some information back from one of our book techs concerning this. Send to Dropbox system has a limit of 150mb, and that PDF is 412mb so that is why the PDF of this ebook can't be sent to Dropbox. Unfortunately there isn't anything we can do about that limit, as this is a limit in the Dropbox API. Sorry it took me so long to find a reason for this.
Best regards,
Paul Fichera
Customer Service Representative
O'Reilly Media -
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aha, that was interresting.
But at the same time, I compared revision 4 and 5 of that book, and I cannot understand why it is so big now, bad compression of it? -
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Hello Asbjorn,
I'm checking in to see if I can get any information regarding the file size. Once I have more information on this I will be in touch.
Best regards,
Paul Fichera
Customer Service Representative
O'Reilly Media -
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Hello Asbjorn,
The PDF has been reduced and is now: 69 MB. I hope this and have a great day!
Best regards,
Paul Fichera
Customer Service Representative
O'Reilly Media -
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Now the same have happened to this book, can someone check if the filesize is wrong?,one file is almost 400MB
Practical Electronics_ Components and Techniques
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/06369...
I put it here, if someone remember the previous problem instead of going through all of the above again.. -