
Often it required closing down the app and reopening it to see the changes. For example, if changes were made from your desktop, opening the file from your cell phone may not show the changes right away. Sometimes you will see a delay when accessing a document from a device different than the one the changes were made from. Google Drive downloads and uploads the entire document to sync it. The files and documents are then synced within the program so they can be accessed from any device or browser. When you open and work on a file, those changes are saved automatically. This is one area where Google Drive and Dropbox really differ. You can use the referral program with a Dropbox Plus account, too, but referrals are still capped at 32 and you earn 1GB of space per accepted referral invitation. Referrals are capped at 32 for a total of 16GB with a free account. For every person that signs up from your referral, Dropbox gives both you and the new signee 500MB of free storage space. From the referral page, send email invites to friends and coworkers. You can find more information on this limit in the developer documentation here.Dropbox does have a referral program to earn additional storage space. This only applies to upload calls, and not other types of calls. This is a limit on the number of upload API calls that can be made per team per month, for certain Dropbox Business team plans only.ģ. Yes, there is an additional specific limit for upload calls to some Dropbox Business team plans, which is now "1 billion API calls/month" for "data transport" noted here. I recommend reading the error documentation and Error Handling Guide for more information.Ģ. If you do hit the general limits, the wait period is usually only on the scale of seconds to minutes anyway.Īlso note that not all 429s and 503s indicate explicit rate limiting, but in any case that you get a 429 or 503 the best practice is to retry the request, respecting the Retry-After header if given in the response, or using an exponential back-off, if not. It is relatively generous though and the limits operate on a per app-user basis. The Dropbox API does have a general rate limiting system that applies to all account types, including free accounts, but we don't have any specific numbers documented for that. The "don't have any API limits at all" claim you quoted was not posted by a Dropbox employee and is not accurate.ġ.
