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API rate limiting on file download
I am using Duplicacy for backing up data to my Dropbox Business account. It is a Dropbox API app and writes to the Apps directory. The issue I am having is that when downloading (for restoring or ver...
Wow, it's nice to see you're still at Dropbox, Greg! Thanks for the very informative and concise answer as always, especially on #1.
Duplicacy is open-source so it can be changed, but its architecture makes removing the get_metadata call here difficult (for one thing, Duplicacy is generic and needs to work with a variety of storage backends). list_folder doesn't work either because successive chunks are unlikely to be stored in the same directory, and enumerating the entire storage with the recursive option is infeasible for large data sets (I have millions of files). I appreciate the pointers!
-davidz
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThanks for the additional context! In that case, I'm sending this along as a feature request for a batch version of /2/files/get_metadata, but I can't promise if or when that might be implemented.
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