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mikemcrae25
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11 months ago

Dropbox API: Connection broken: IncompleteRead

Hi everyone, I am using the API to zip and download folders each with 1000 .jpegs in them (approx 4GB - 5GB). Historically this has been no issue. In the last week however, I have started receiving...
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Greg-DB
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11 months ago

Thanks for the report. Can you let me know:

  • Are you referring to using the /2/files/download_zip endpoint?
  • Does it always fail after 2013265920 bytes, or does that number vary?
  • Does it always fail after a specific amount of time? If so, how long is that?

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