Can I download a transfer that expired?

Expired transfers can be recovered if the sender enabled the Recoverable option when sending. Recovery is available to Ultimate, Teams, and Enterprise plan users only.

Access your expired transfer from the download link or directly from your sent/received transfer list in your account.

If recovery is available, you'll see an option to recover the transfer.

Click the recovery button to restore the transfer and download it.

The ability to recover an expired file is available only to Ultimate, Teams, and Enterprise plan users. If you're not on this plan, you can upgrade to access this feature.

Files smaller than 256 MiB can be recovered for up to one year after expiry.

Files larger than 256 MiB can be recovered for up to 90 days after expiry.

Act quickly, as transfers outside their respective recovery windows cannot be restored.

Recovery was not enabled when the transfer was originally sent.

The transfer has been deleted by the sender.

In these cases, the files can no longer be recovered, as they have been permanently removed from our servers.

How to recover an expired transfer if the sender enabled the Recoverable option — available on Ultimate, Teams, and Enterprise plans.

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