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jijik
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

Upload API - skip upload, when file with the same content already uploaded

Dropbox windows app is smart and when currently uploading file already exists somewhere in dropbox (file with the same content hash I guess), it doesn't fully upload it again. It gets marked as uploa...
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    4 years ago

    The Dropbox API doesn't offer a way to do this automatically, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

     

    You could effectively reproduce this behavior though, at least within an account. To do, you'd need to do something like this:

    • Use /2/files/list_folder[/continue] to list the metadata for the contents of the account, which includes the 'content_hash' for each file. (You can cache this and update it over time as needed.)
    • Before starting an upload of a file, compute the content hash of the local data.
    • Check if that local content hash exists in the account already, by looking for it in the metadata retrieved in the first step.
    • If the content_hash is found in the existing metadata, use /2/files/copy_v2 to copy the existing file to the new path instead of uploading it again. If it is not found, proceed to upload it normally (e.g., using UploadSessionStartAsync, etc.).

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