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gagsbh
7 years agoHelpful | Level 5
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[] bu...
- 7 years agoYou 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.htm
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.htm
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.htm
gagsbh
7 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Thanks! It worked.
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