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Hi,
I use the Dropbox webhook to start a Javascript function I've written. It worked great the first few months when the folders just contained a few files. Now they contain approximately 200-250 ...
There are a number of variables that can affect the overall performance here, so we can't promise any specific speed for listing a folder. Looking at your code though, there are a few things that may help:
- You're using "limit: 5", which will limit Dropbox to returning about 5 entries per page. Since you need to make an HTTP request and response for each page, using a small limit like that will increase the overhead and increase how long the entire process takes. If you don't need to use a small page size like that for some reason, switching to a larger number may speed this up.
- You're using "recursive: true", which can increase how much work Dropbox has to do to list out the entries. If you don't need nested entries, switching this to "recursive: false" may speed this up.
Greg-DB
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Dropbox Community ModeratorThere are a number of variables that can affect the overall performance here, so we can't promise any specific speed for listing a folder. Looking at your code though, there are a few things that may help:
- You're using "limit: 5", which will limit Dropbox to returning about 5 entries per page. Since you need to make an HTTP request and response for each page, using a small limit like that will increase the overhead and increase how long the entire process takes. If you don't need to use a small page size like that for some reason, switching to a larger number may speed this up.
- You're using "recursive: true", which can increase how much work Dropbox has to do to list out the entries. If you don't need nested entries, switching this to "recursive: false" may speed this up.
Thank you for your reply. Changing the limit to 2000 solved my problem. It now loads within a couple of seconds. I realise that I didn't understand what limit meant. Thanks!
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