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Ryan F.17's avatar
Ryan F.17
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

Getting OutOfMemoryException when downloading

Hello,

I wrote a quick console app using Dropbox.NET with the intent of downloading particular files or folders from Dropbox (for archival purposes, etc...there are multiple reasons).

However, I quickly ran into an issue when it tried to download a 1GB file. I receive an OutOfMemoryException. Here is the code that I use:

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private async Task DownloadFile(string dropboxPath, string targetPath) {
    using (var response = await _dbx.Files.DownloadAsync(dropboxPath)) {
        using (var source = await response.GetContentAsStreamAsync()) {
            using (var target = File.Create(targetPath)) {
                await source.CopyToAsync(target);
            }
        }
    }
}

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This code does work for smaller files, and I know my system itself is not out of memory (have over 8 GB still available). Am I doing something wrong?

Please advise...thanks!

Ryan

  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    Thanks for the report Ryan! This looks like a bug in the SDK. We're looking into it.

  • Ryan F.17's avatar
    Ryan F.17
    New member | Level 1

    The fix did indeed take care of the problem. Thanks so much for such a speedy resolution!

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