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DS6
8 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Dropbox chunks upload slow & unpredictable
I am trying to upload files larger than 150 MB using Dropbox API v2 on iOS. Problem is upload is sometimes slow, sometimes it hangs in the middle for several seconds, sometimes it stalls in the middl...
DS6
8 years agoExplorer | Level 4
I will try to conduct test with 8 MB chunks, but I see the issue with chunked approach is it doesn't work in background on iOS. Is there any approach to get the upload working in background?
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
8 years agoThere's some information about background tasks here:
https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-obj-c#note-about-background-sessions
I don't believe there's a great solution though, as that applies to individual upload requests. Wrapping the upload session calls in a background task will get you a couple of minutes, but it won't fail gracefully.
https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-obj-c#note-about-background-sessions
I don't believe there's a great solution though, as that applies to individual upload requests. Wrapping the upload session calls in a background task will get you a couple of minutes, but it won't fail gracefully.
- tarasheth007gma8 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Greg-DB wrote:
There's some information about background tasks here:
https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-obj-c#note-about-background-sessions
I don't believe there's a great solution though, as that applies to individual upload requests. Wrapping the upload session calls in a background task will get you a couple of minutes, but it won't fail gracefully.
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