Timeline for Most API call efficient way to retrieve all attachment bodies
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| Jul 31, 2012 at 20:52 | comment | added | John De Santiago | Agree with Scott the one record batch size for downloading base64 fields such as attachment is a limit enforced by Salesforce. You can do a backup to get an initial set of the files and then do nightly downloads of those that remain. I wouldn't recommend attempting to download all attachments on a regular basis thought through the API. Storing the files locally would be more efficient | |
| Jul 31, 2012 at 20:50 | comment | added | ca_peterson | Note that if you take the custom webservice approach you need to be mindful of the 6MB heap space limit, so this is really only viable with small attachments. | |
| Jul 31, 2012 at 20:44 | history | answered | Scott VonSchilling | CC BY-SA 3.0 |