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Kestas P.'s avatar
Kestas P.
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

Failed to grab locks

We are making simple file copying files via Dropbox API and getting exceptions like  com.dropbox.core.DbxException$RetryLater: {"error": "Failed to grab locks for 954581991: lock held by connect...
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Kestas P.'s avatar
Kestas P.
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

Yes indeed my app is submitting for file copy concurrently but there are no way to submit batch copy (folder doesn't fit). If I do sequentially it takes plenty of time to copy files. Let say 40 image files with about 600 kb of size each it takes about 30s to copy all but I need to copy 4000 of images and it would take an hour.

Dropbox sync folder on windows doesn't have similar problem. Looks like it doesn't deal with locking issue. Is it possible to deal with locks in different way? I mean obtain pessimistic lock, do the operations and release lock or take locks just on destination folder where I am copying files.

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