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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
5 years ago

Partial file update

Hello, Is there some available way to update (not entire upload) a file? Let's assume some 100MB file and has to be updated only 1kB starting on positon 1MB. Is there a convenient way this to be do...
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tahsini
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5 years ago

We currently do not have a feature available in the API for this. I have filed this as a feature request, but I can't promise if or when this would be implemented.

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Sam S.6
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

Partial updates would indeed be a very useful feature! After all, this is what the Dropbox client itself is doing.

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