Thread: [Announce] DropN900 - the maemo 5 DropBox client
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larelogio is offline larelogio
2010-11-03 , 23:20
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#253
Originally Posted by jonnenau View Post
If you do any change to a file it will be fetched again completely, there is no way for me to know what bits to update etc the dropbox desktop clients get the whole file also not just updated "parts". At least this is what I assume and have noticed when using the clients.
Well... no.
If you have a big file and change just a few bytes the sync done by the Dropbox client is very fast (win/mac). In the example given, a TC file, the size never changes, the timestamp is reseted and still the Dropbox client keeps the changed bytes and only them synced. Even a conflict file (a complete new copy of some version) is created very fast, no full transmission involved.

That sad, I wouldn't expect a mobile app to do all that. It would be awesome, but probably not possible.

LARelogio