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Large File Download
Hello,
I used Dropbox SDK for .NET to download a large file of size 1.3 GB but the program hung.
using (var response = await dbx.Files.DownloadAsync(path + "/" + file))
{
byte[] buffer = await response.GetContentAsByteArrayAsync();
}
I then used Dropbox REST API - "https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download"
with Authorization and Dropbox-API-Arg (with path as argument) as headers.
For smaller files the Rest Api worked, but for the 1.3 GB file download, the program threw "Out of Memory Exception".
How do I perform a download of such a larger file with size > 1GB.
Thanks,
Gagan
- I appreciate the help. Changing the URL or requesting desktop sites on a mobile phone might work, but it’s cumbersome as a workaround. As such, in iOS, shared links to audio files, links originally created by Dropbox, will autoplay when opened in the app. That is the default behavior that ultimately emerges. I’ll take the opportunity to request a global “off” button for autoplay in the Dropbox iOS app.
2 Replies
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
You appear to be trying to read the entirety of the contents into memory, which is likely to fail for large files like this.
You'll probably want to use GetContentAsStreamAsync in the SDK (instead of GetContentAsByteArrayAsync), so you can access the contents via a stream, instead of reading it all into memory:
https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/M_Dropbox_Api_Stone_IDownloadResponse_1_GetContentAsStreamAsync.htmThanks! It worked.
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