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TheFlodge
5 years agoHelpful | Level 6
An actually USEFUL guide on uploading large files via API
Hello fellow Dropsketeers! So after writing what I hope is viewed as a SCATHING indictment of Dropbox's awful CLI support and API functionality/documentation, I decided that, while it was a somewh...
TheFlodge
5 years agoHelpful | Level 6
There was actually more of this guide at the end regarding writing a script, but the site incorrectly claimed my post was over 30000 characters so I had to truncate it (it was actually less than 25000, but maybe they could tell more than half of it was dad jokes and snark and that counted against me). Then the post got marked as spam for a while and my irritation reached a level that made it impossible to care or invest any more effort into this.
The mods un-spamiffied it after I made a rage filled post about it (the "report" feature was useless, but a hateful post DID seem to help), but I'm too emotionally drained from this whole rollercoaster to expend any further effort.
If the guide helps someone have less frustration than I did, I'm happy something good came of it.
fabianbitter
3 years agoNew member | Level 2
Thanks for this article. I wrote a script for handling this http://github.com/bitterdev/dropbox-upload-script
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