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Kundle K.'s avatar
Kundle K.
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11 years ago

Why is it so slow uploadfile

I'm using the UploadFile two time and I recive the direct share link of both files but perdure like 3 s for do all that, I think it is a lot time. The calculation was 63 KB (first file) and the secon...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

Hi Nicolas, the client isn't a good comparison as it doesn't use the Dropbox API and it performs many different optimizations. (For example, it doesn't have to upload a file again if the user already uploaded the same data.)

Anyway, the speed you see on the API will be very dependent on your network connection, but doesn't vary based on the kind of account you have.

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