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Shashikanth
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8 years ago

Uploading chunks of file data to a file in dropbox

Hello,   My scenario: In the application I am working I have to upload chunk of file data and append to a file in dropbox. In the application I will not know the source file name. All I get, throu...
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Shashikanth
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago

Thank you for the reply.

 

Yes, I need to append data to an existing file on Dropbox. Uploading entire file each time is not an option for me because the data to be appended comes in as an input to my method. So all I have is a byte array which needs to be appended to a file on Dropbox. 

 

 

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Greg-DB
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8 years ago
Thanks for following up. The API doesn't offer the ability to append like that unfortunately. I'll pass this along as a feature request.

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