FYI: Download-A-Day

I've been getting a lot of the same question in the past few hours, so I just thought I'd post the answer here for everyone to see!

If you tried downloading anything from the newsletter I sent early Friday morning and got an error message, here's why that happened:

To put it simply, the links in that newsletter were shared with non-subscribers. I won't get into it too much, but from what I can see it was shared several times (I can't see who shared or where it went though). One link alone had almost 1,500 unique clicks (which is almost double the # of newsletter subscribers on the list).

Sharing those links caused an unusually high amount of traffic, so Dropbox disabled them. If you tried to download after they were suspended, you would've gotten an error message. I am willing to work with whoever still needs links, provided that you opened the email and tried to download within that 24 hour time frame. You can find details on how to do that below.

This doesn't make me mad or angry really, it's more frustrating and sad. I wanted to do a mass give back event in the newsletter as a way of saying thank you. The schedule with this one has been pretty all over the place and I wanted to repay the group of you who've been patiently waiting. I won't stop doing Download-A-Day events, but this will change the way I do them. We'll still do a traditional give back day (one part) once the full kit has been posted, but after that I'm going to take some time to re-evaluate. It may be a while before we do another one of these, but don't worry -- it's still going to happen!

That said, if you received the email, tried downloading and got an error message, please send me an email (labellevie.designs.hw@gmail.com) with the address you signed up for the newsletter with. I can go in and check the details of that campaign. If you initially opened the email and tried to download before the 24 hour window was up, I'll happily send you whatever links you want/need.

If you didn't open the email, or didn't try to download within the first 24 hours, unfortunately I can't and won't send  you anything. I hate how crass that sounds, but the validity window was there for a reason. This was a limited time offer and had a time frame that I mentioned several times in a few different places. Please don't send me an email if you know you didn't open it in time.

This is what that 24 hour window was based on. Keep in mind that this is Central Standard Time in the United States. Emails should have been opened/downloads should have been attempted before 1:04am CST on March 14, 2015. If you're in a different timezone and are unsure, send me an email. Mailchimp converts your time automatically to mine, so I'll be able to tell!

I also want to take the time to apologize to those of you who opened the email on time and encountered those error messages. I'm going to do my best to try to get you the links you need!