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Jopo-JP
Explorer | Level 3
3 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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Greg-DB
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3 years ago

Yes, it's generally best to use /2/files/move_batch_v2 when you have multiple items to move/rename.

 

Otherwise, there isn't a way to improve the speed of these operations on the API, but I'll pass this along as a request. I can't promise if or when that might be optimized though.

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Jopo-JP
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago
Thank you for your info.
I just thought, that processing one file per second does feel quite slow.
Disregarded my problem above.
There could be the option, where Dropbox could response a lot faster for the first few files before slowing down.

Just like a allowance for a smaller burst of transaction in a short time or period.

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