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Sukanth
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6 years ago
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is there a way we can resume downloads from where it left ?

Hi Guys,  I wrote code using dropbox java sdk to download all the files in dropbox to my NAS (Network-attached storage). The data is huge . I tried to make the process faster using thread pool exec...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    6 years ago

    Yes, it looks like in that case you've only written a portion of the file, so you could check how much of the file you did write, and then use DbxDownloadStyleBuilder.range to download just the rest of the file.

    Also, if it's helpful, you can use the "Content Hash" feature, available in the Java SDK as FileMetadata.contentHash, to verify if you've successfully downloaded the full and correct file contents.

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Greg-DB
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6 years ago

Здравко The Dropbox API actually supports range requests for all content-download style endpoints in general, so it's mentioned in the "Content-download endpoints" documentation. That could definitely be expanded on though, so I'll ask the team to improve that. Thanks!

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