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Dominoid
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8 years ago

Best Way To Upload Thousands of Files .NET API

I have an application that retrieves thousands (across all clients) of PDFs daily from a Point of Sale (POS) computer system. I then upload those files to the users Dropbox account for paperwork rete...
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago
Using upload sessions and batch committing as outlined in the data ingress guide you linked to is the best way to do this.

We don't have a sample of using that in .NET SDK, but there is a basic example of using upload sessions (without the batch commit) here:

https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/issues/28

That should be a good starting point for implementing this and then adding the batch commit.

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