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Uploading different size files.

I'm trying to upload files with different sizes, some are <150MB and some are >150MB ... that's why I upload files in 140MB chunks using the `/upload_session/start`, `append`, and `finish`... as specified in the `start` docs I can use `"close": true` if I want to close the session, and that's what I do to close the session if the files are <140MB. but how can I specify the `"path": "/Homework/math/Matrices.txt"` as in the `finish` docs?

Am I getting something wrong here?

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@abdallah wrote:
... but how can I specify the `"path": "/Homework/math/Matrices.txt"` as in the `finish` docs?

Am I getting something wrong here?

Hi @abdallah,

Honestly, I cannot understand what are you asking for actually. 🤔 You ask for something that you have already explained in your question. Yes, the path is just one of the parameters you can (and must - it's something mandatory, not optional, like another parameters) specify when calling /2/files/upload_session/finish end point. 🙋 You may set it to real Dropbox path (as the name suggests) or using id or mixture of the previous two (with possible participation of namespace) - the choice is yours. Just keep in mind you may need to set the mode too (despite optional) if you have to overwrite already existing file (with the default mode value it's impossible - will result in conflicted copy or error). That's it.

Since you have multiple files, it's a good idea not to finish them one by one, but once all they are ready (fully uploaded and closed) to finish them in batch - /2/files/upload_session/finish_batch_v2 - faster and safer. 😉 The same parameter set, organized in array - entries (one entry for each file to finish).

Hope this sheds a bit of clarity.