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SWworker
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7 years ago
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Develop Android app to upload large file to Dropbox. Failed all the times.

Hi,     I currently develop Android app for user to upload their files to Dropbox. My app can upload <300MB file to user's Dropbox account. But large file is failed all the times.      My develop...
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Greg-DB
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7 years ago

When using the individual upload method, only files up to 150 MB are officially supported. Attempting to upload larger files, above 300 MB as you found, will fail with that error.

To upload files larger than 150 MB, you'll need to use upload sessions, via uploadSessionStart, uploadSessionAppendV2, and uploadSessionFinishBatch. Please refer to the documentation for those methods for more information. There's also an example here.

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SWworker
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7 years ago

Hi Greg,

    Thank you first.

    I have a question about CHUNKED_UPLOAD_CHUNK_SIZE. In sample code, it has a description "Use a multiple of 4MiB for your chunk size". My question is can I set this value smaller than 4MB?  Is 32KB ok?

Thanks!!

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