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Keith B.7
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7 years ago

Speed block when scanning multiple folders

Hello,   For the latest version of our app, we changed the file format, and ever since doing so, Dropbox sync has slowed significantly. I'm wondering if there is anything I can do about this. Some ...
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Greg-DB
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7 years ago

Hi Keith, increasing how much nesting there is could certainly have an impact on performance.

 

Are you using the 'recursive' option on listFolder though, or are you calling listFolder/listFolderContinue for each folder and subfolder? If you're not using 'recursive=true' please try that out to see if it works faster in your case.

Keith B.7's avatar
Keith B.7
Helpful | Level 7
7 years ago

Hi Greg,

 

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I am already calling 'recursive=true'. A long shot, but are there any techniques or tricks that can speed up the recursion?

 

Thanks and all the best,
Keith

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    Greg-DB
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    7 years ago
    Thanks for confirming that.

    No, unfortunately there aren't any techniques for speeding this up, but I'll pass this along as feedback.

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