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How to upload to root with sample code
For the "advanced upload case for "batch" uploading a large number of files" how do you specify root? For this line: DBFILESCommitInfo *commitInfo = [[DBFILESCommitInfo alloc] initWithPath:@"/outpu...
Stephen C.14
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffYeah it's not ideal, but this is the sort of the price of "batching" everything at once.
Because we don't make so many trips to where our metadata lives during upload, you can upload a lot of stuff at once without running into rate-limiting. But because you do these metadata write operations all at once as the final step, you don't know if ythere's something wrong like a malformed path until everything is already uploaded.
Stephen,
Is the upload much slower than before? I don't remember it taking so long to upload large files....
- Stephen C.14
I checked our performance graphs, and it doesn't appear that any of our upload endpoints have higher latency than normal.
Of course, double check your connection and make sure it's robust.
If this issue persists for more than a few hours and if you notice it consistently, re-ping this thread, and I can take a closer look.
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