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developedsoftwa
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8 years ago

Binary Diff ?

Seems so stupid to have to upload a whole file when using the API even if 1 byte has changed.

 

Are you able to offer a way of updating a certain block so we as developers can do the binary diff our end and upload the parts that have changed.

  • Thanks for the post! The Dropbox API doesn't currently offer this, but we'll consider it a feature request. I can't promise if or when that would be implemented and released though.
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    Greg-DB
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    Thanks for the post! The Dropbox API doesn't currently offer this, but we'll consider it a feature request. I can't promise if or when that would be implemented and released though.
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        Greg-DB
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        That's referring to the desktop client, which uses a different mechanism not available in the Dropbox API.
    • waltertross's avatar
      waltertross
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      is there external access to the feature request, so that we can see whether and how it is being taken care of?

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        Greg-DB
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        waltertross We don't have a public feature request tracker. This forum thread itself serves as reference to this request, and I'll follow up here if/when I have any update on this. I don't have any news to report on this feature request right now. 

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