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Info V.1
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10 years ago

Concurrency issue - failed to grab locks

We did see the previous answer  https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/204555365-Failed-to-grab-locks about the concurrency limitation. But wanted to find out more information, -...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

This issue is not specific to using the API, nor is it related to using the same access token specifically. Changes made via the web or desktop, for example, can cause this to be seen via the API, and vice versa.

It is related to making concurrent changes to a single user account, and so making changes in different accounts won't affect each other, unless the changes happen to be in a shared folder between the accounts.

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