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Jopo-JP
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

API moving/renaming of files is slow

At the moment i'm testing the api and noticed if i move multiple files/folder it only moves one file a second. Renaming also suffers from the same problem. This seems rather slow. On the webpage...
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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
2 years ago
Jopo-JP wrote:

At the moment i'm testing the api and noticed if i move multiple files/folder it only moves one file a second.
Renaming also suffers from the same problem.
This seems rather slow.

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It can cause issues for me, if multiple people at once work on files in dropbox and move stuff around with 100s pdf and this will result in a big wait time.

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Hi Jopo-JP,

When you say "move multiple files/folders", do you mean batch operation or just single move at a time? 🧐👈 In batch multiple files/folders (up to 1000) can move/rename at once (in border of this second you're talking about). 😉

Hope this helps.

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