{"id":3078,"date":"2023-12-07T12:45:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T07:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigeljoy.me\/?p=3078"},"modified":"2023-12-07T12:45:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T07:15:21","slug":"download-large-google-drive-folders-more-than-2gb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeljoy.me\/download-large-google-drive-folders-more-than-2gb\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Download Large Google Drive Folders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Recently, I was in a situation where I had to download a shared Google Drive folder with thousands of raw photos taken on a professional camera. A typical raw image from a professional camera can have size between 10 to 20 MB. Hence, the size of the entire folder was easily over 40 GB! I had such a nightmare time trying to download this folder from Google Drive, because Google Drive has a restriction of 2 GB per zip file when downloading the folder. That means, the 40 GB folder was split into 20 zip files of 2 GB each, trying to download simultaneously!<\/strong> This simultaneous download of 20 zip files kept failing because my 100 Mbps internet was not fast enough to carry out this download. In this post, I will show how I finally figured out the best way to download large Google Drive folders of more than 2 GB in size without splitting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Google Drive is alright for storing and uploading files. However, it is not ideal for sharing large folders or files with other people. The reason is that, when you download a large folder from Google Drive, Google’s server splits and compresses the folder to zip files of 2GB per file. Hence, the download operation on Google Drive web will initiate simultaneous download of 2 GB zip files as screen in the screenshot below.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Problem with Downloading Large Google Drive Folders<\/h2>\n\n\n\n