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Info V.1
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9 years ago
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Concurrency support - follow up

Following up on https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/API-support/Concurrency-issue-failed-to-grab-locks/m-p/132270   Is the limitation that concurrent access to same users account would fail with "Faile...
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    Greg-DB
    9 years ago
    Yes, that limitation still exists. The type of account doesn't affect this.

    And yes, /2/files/copy_batch only enables you to copy multiple files that already exist on Dropbox.

    The /2/files/upload_session/finish_batch endpoint does allow you to commit multiple files that you're uploading at once though. For more information on how to use this, please refer to the data ingress guide:

    https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/data-ingress-guide

    For reference, lock contention doesn't apply to downloads, as you're not modifying the account.
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago
Yes, that limitation still exists. The type of account doesn't affect this.

And yes, /2/files/copy_batch only enables you to copy multiple files that already exist on Dropbox.

The /2/files/upload_session/finish_batch endpoint does allow you to commit multiple files that you're uploading at once though. For more information on how to use this, please refer to the data ingress guide:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/data-ingress-guide

For reference, lock contention doesn't apply to downloads, as you're not modifying the account.

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