Hawk
October 6, 2017, 1:19am
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Given that Insync still sometimes encounters rate limit issues, I don’t think they’ll really consider giving users the freedom to set multi-threaded upload / download any time soon.
I’m using insync to upload a bunch of files (duh) and now I’m constantly getting errors that can’t be resolved by retrying them. The message simply says “Rate Limit Exceeded”. I’m unaware of any bandwith limitations Google may be enforcing.
To be fair, increasing upload speed can be quite complicated. Merely changing the number from 2 to something larger probably won’t have any material effect.
Google places many visible and invisible limits on the use of its public API, and may change these limits at times. As end users, we don’t know what Insync’s overall usage status of Google’s API is. I’m wildly speculating here, but maybe they’re at risk of exceeding some limits if they increase the speed too much. Maybe they could request a…