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DolphinA2
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Suggestion for Bulk Upload and Download API

Currently, if i were to upload or download 100+ to 1000+ files to/from Dropbox, one have to call upload and download for each file. Also, such upload and download are not compressed (not supported i...
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SwanCobb
Collaborator | Level 10
10 years ago

I think zipping up files is a bad idea since files can be added, deleted, or renamed at any time.

Are you under the impression that text and log files are not already compressed during transmission? I just tested with a 200MB text file, and the amount of network activity was much smaller than the amount of disk that was being read. This is indicative of compression occurring on a per file basis. Compression might make sense for text files, but not for archives, images, and videos. It just adds an unnecessary CPU overhead.

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