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mojtabamarashee
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago
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How to append to existing file

Hi Using api v2 Is it possible to append to end of an existing file?
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    8 years ago
    The Dropbox API doesn't offer a call to append data to an existing file, but I'll be sure to pass this along as a feature request.

    You'll need to upload the full contents of the new version of the file instead.
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Greg-DB
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2 years ago

The Dropbox API still does not offer the ability to make a new version of a file by just appending data to an existing file.

 

The Dropbox API upload session functionality does offer the ability to upload files by sending multiple requests, each with just a portion of the total data, but that still requires the app to upload all of the data of each new version of the file. And while each upload session can be kept open and used for up to 7 days, it's not possible to access the data that has been uploaded to the upload session until the upload session is closed/finished.

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md22
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

You wrote about to access the data ... but how about access to a copy of the data? Can you copy current data to a file in user folder. This will be a file with a special status. As temporary. This can be done not often. 1 time per minute if the data has changed for example.

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    Greg-DB
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    2 years ago

    md22 No, the Dropbox API does not offer a way to make a copy of the pending upload session data like that.

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      md22
      Explorer | Level 3
      2 years ago

      Who make Dropbox API?  🤔

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        Greg-DB
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        2 years ago

        md22 The Dropbox API is made by the company Dropbox. The Dropbox API does not currently have the functionality requested here, but I've sent this along to the relevant team in the company as a feature request. I can't promise if/when that functionality would be implemented and released, but I'll follow up here if/when I have any news on that.

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