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AlexSlaets
Explorer | Level 4
9 months ago

Syncing large volume of slightly modified files, music tagging

I have an extensive music collection stored in my Dropbox account, consisting of approximately 30,000 tracks, predominantly in the classical and jazz genres. I plan to edit or update the metadata tag...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    9 months ago

    Hi AlexSlaets 

     

    Dropbox does have block upload capability in that it uploads in 4mb blocks, but, that means if the file is less than 4mb in size it'll upload the whole thing again. 

     

    Also you may find it does that if you download and reupload. You'd be better off editing the files within the Dropbox directory so they are only changing once. 

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Mark
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9 months ago

Hi AlexSlaets 

 

Dropbox does have block upload capability in that it uploads in 4mb blocks, but, that means if the file is less than 4mb in size it'll upload the whole thing again. 

 

Also you may find it does that if you download and reupload. You'd be better off editing the files within the Dropbox directory so they are only changing once. 

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