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developedsoftwa
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8 years ago

Binary Diff ?

Seems so stupid to have to upload a whole file when using the API even if 1 byte has changed.   Are you able to offer a way of updating a certain block so we as developers can do the binary diff ou...
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    Greg-DB
    8 years ago
    Thanks for the post! The Dropbox API doesn't currently offer this, but we'll consider it a feature request. I can't promise if or when that would be implemented and released though.
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Greg-DB
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Thanks for the post! The Dropbox API doesn't currently offer this, but we'll consider it a feature request. I can't promise if or when that would be implemented and released though.
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    Greg-DB
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    8 years ago
    That's referring to the desktop client, which uses a different mechanism not available in the Dropbox API.

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