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C. Logan
Explorer | Level 3
9 years ago

Uploading big file using Objective-C API V2 very SLOW...

Hello,   recently our app updates the Dropbox related code from API V1 to API V2. Usually we need to transfer files to Dropbox, it is OK for small files, but for video files of size about 1.5 GB th...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago
The team has improved this somewhat, but is still working on bringing this back down more.
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Bmcdonald1
New member | Level 2
9 years ago
We are having the same slowness issues on upload. On create folder API it is taking 10 seconds. In our product we transfer whole directory trees. Transferring 100 folders takes 100 * 10 seconds to create the folders. And we get rate limited on 90% of the requests.

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