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Colin A.3's avatar
Colin A.3
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

Upload differences instead of entire files

Does the Dropbox API support uploading changed portions of files, rather than whole files? For example, when a large file changes I only want to send the changed portions, rather than the whole file.

 

I see the v1 API has /chunked_upload, while v2 has /upload_session/start, but AFAICS these only allow for uploading entire files in chunks, not uploading selective chunks.

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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    11 years ago

    Unfortunately the APIs don't offer that functionality, but I'll be sure to pass this along as a request.

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