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xtolchinskii
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

parallel upload failing - "lookup_failed/incorrect_offset"

we need to upload large files (several GiB) to dropbox using the API. i've written a script that uses cURL to do this in parallel. i upload the first segment of 150M in order to obtain the session ID...
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xtolchinskii's avatar
xtolchinskii
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

thanks Greg-DB, i missed that in the docs. this looks promising, i'll give it a try.

 

one question : since /upload_session/finish in a concurrent upload won't accept file data along with it, what should the offset be in the cursor data for this case ?  the total number of bytes already sent with previous calls (i.e. the file size) ?  0 ?  ...or maybe it's ignored ?

 

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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

Yes, for the offset on the /finish call for a concurrent upload session you should supply the total number of bytes successfully sent for the session previously (i.e., the total length of the file).

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