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James Z.3
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10 years ago

[Swifty] File download memory management

I noticed that for every GB I download to local file system via  client.files.download, the app's memory usage increase by that amount. I imagine the Dropbox client doesn't keep the file in memory af...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

Hi James, that certainly would be unexpected and non-ideal, and I'm not aware of any other such reports. If it doesn't seem to be something your app is doing though, we'd be happy to look into it. The version number of the SDK you're using and the relevant code snippet(s) would be useful in that case.

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