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Dot Net SDK provided by Dropbox is not updated with TLS 1.2
I AM TRYING TO UPDATE MY APP FROM TLS 1.0 TO TLS 1.2 AND POOR SUPPORT IS AVAILABLE AND REALLY UPSET. ONLY JAVA AND PYTHON UPSTED SDK AVAILABLE.
sync dropbox with api
hello Which API can I use to sync a folder or all dropbox folders?
how do I set my Swift Dropbox API .upload to overwrite
How do I make .upload overwrite the file if it's already in dropbox? When my swift tries to upload an updated file, I get "API route" error if file already in dropbox. I tried this: let request = client!.files.upload( path: dropbox_upload_pathname, input: fileData, WriteMode: overwrite ) ..but got error "Cannot find…
Embedder not working, React error Objects are not valid as a React child (found: [object HTMLDivElem
I've been using the Embedder successfully for years in my app, but suddenly the previews no longer appear and I see errors from the React library such as: Objects are not valid as a React child (found: [object HTMLDivElement]) Has something changed in the JS SDK that is causing this?
Backup Guard permissions error
Hello, I've tried searching the community for Backup Guard and haven't seen anything, so I apologize if this has come up before. I've spent a couple of days going back and forth with a representative of Backup Guard (Wordpress backup plugin) about some warnings I was coming across when trying to perform a cloud backup of…
How to regenerate expired Dropbox access token of customer (end user)?
We have few customers (end users) for whom we have recently started observing expired Dropbox access token as follows: DropboxApi::Errors::HttpError : HTTP 401: {"error_summary": "expired_access_token/..", "error": {".tag": "expired_access_token"}} All these customers have already provided necessary permissions to our app…
/properties/add
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation?msclkid=a5514136c71911ec92ae2fe185487987#file_properties-properties-add How to select a path for document which we want to add by API. Kindly help on the same. I am getting this error: { "error_summary": "path/not_found/", "error": { ".tag": "path",…
One Dropbox account Maestral integration not working
One of my Dropbox accounts doesn't work with the Maestral app. I've tried several times on different machines and the status remains as "Indexing" even after letting it run for a better part of the week. I tried moving the same files to another Dropbox account and set up Maestral with that account which actually did finish…
Java SDK - Android - Log in error: "Couldn't connect to Dropbox"
My old code uses tokens that now expire after 4 hours. I'm trying to update my Android/Java code to fix this, but I'm having trouble getting past the login ("Allow") screen. My OLD auth code is below, and works, but expires after 4 hours: Auth.startOAuth2Authentication(activity, appKey); My NEW code looks like below. I get…
Easiest way to allow users to download single file from any mobile web browser.
Hi. I currently have the Saver method setup, but it doesn't work on iOS chrome, so this isn't a viable solution for me. What is the best option for me to allow any logged-in user to download their video to their Dropbox account, ideally without them having to enter an API key? My site is developed using PHP. Thanks! Craig
Files are no longer uploaded to Dropbox from PowerShell script
Hi everyone! Hope you can help me out with this one: We have a VOIP provider which stores calls for a maximum of 30 days, hence, we download them and upload the .wav files to Dropbox so we can have them forever stored. Until a few days ago, we used the following script to automate the process, HOWEVER, now the calls are…
How to get at Retry-After when using the .NET API and using UploadAsync to upload
We use the .NET API to upload files using UploadAsync I recently got an error: System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. ---> Dropbox.Api.RateLimitException: too_many_requests/. So, I need to ratelimit, fine, I'm OK with that. Elsewhere there's talk about a Retry-After header that tell you how long to wait…
Re: The underlying connection was closed error.
I have the same Error, my code: Dim ver As String = "MY dropbox file URL" Dim client As WebClient = New WebClient() Dim reader As StreamReader = New StreamReader(client.OpenRead(ver))
Unable to connect to dropbox using the dropbox api to give access to and account
I have updated and app to use the dropbox sdk version 5.2.0, before it used the 4.0.1. The problem I have now is that when I do: DbxRequestConfig requestConfig = new DbxRequestConfig(clientIdentifier);Auth.startOAuth2PKCE(mContext, APP_KEY, requestConfig, scopes); The app launches the popup dialog to allow an account, but…
Upload Files Function Powershell - Bad Request
I'm trying to upload files using Powershell to a folder inside our company Dropbox. I'm using a function I googled somewhere (I don't have the URL at hand, sorry about that): function Upload-FileToDropbox { Param( [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [string]$SourceFilePath, [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [string]$TargetFilePath,…
How to continue if the connection is interrupted.
Hi everyone. File unload question. How to continue if the connection is interrupted. An example of my code. using (var stream = new FileStream(file, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite)) { int numChunks = (int)Math.Ceiling((double)stream.Length / chunkSizeByte); byte[] buffer = new byte[chunkSizeByte];…
500 error Request url '/2/files/upload_session/append_v2' method 'POST'
I bought a Dropbox 2 TB subscription to store backups of my site, but I get a 500 error when uploading backups to Dropbox storage. This happens when uploading a 22 GB site in a .gz archive Here are the problem logs. Can you help with this? [2022-04-22T04:47:53+03:00] ERROR 'site.com' upload have been ended with error,…
CC3200 No expiration token
Hi, Our IOT devices use the CC3200 chipset and drop box for OTA updates. Now It is not working with short lived tokens. Is there any workaround to get the "no expiration" token? Regards, Sundar
Displaying file from Dropbox into a WebApplication using Dropbox API
Hello, I want to find the best way to view a file like a video or image from Dropbox into a Website using HTTP or Javascript SDK for example I'm trying at least to download a file using the shared link and CURL I also have a question should I use double quotes or single quotes with CURL in the Doc of the website there is a…
Trying to get dotnet batch upload working (to solve "too many operations" issue)
Hi, I'm saving a lot of log files from parallel process and running into "too many operations" exceptions occasionally (I already rate-limited them to 1 per second start rate to deal with a rate limit issue) and saw mention of using batch upload to address this, so I'm trying to do so but I'm missing something somewhere…
Unable to correctly upload images using the Dropbox API in Matlab
I am trying to upload an image to Dropbox using the Dropbox API and Matlab's webwrite function. I get a successful response when running the below code. However, the response says 'size: 215' when I know the size of the image should be lower than that. Furthermore, the image uploaded to Dropbox appears to be corrupted. It…
how can I generate a resfresh token automatically, java web app
Good Morning everyone, I have a question about my java web app and automatic refresh token generation: I have my access token and appName stored in application.properties file. After that, I have a configuration class that contains getter and setter of my properties. Finally I hava a customized java class with different…
Displaying the count of files with the help of team_log/get_events API
I am trying to use team_log/get_events to get the count of files in a specific dropbox path that has been added at a given date/time frame. There are lots of categories/events inside it. Does anyone know which specific category should i use to do that operation? Thank you!
UploadSessionFinishBatchCheckAsync - Path of Failed Entry
Hello @Greg-DB I am using UploadSessionFinishBatchCheckAsync API in my application. UploadSessionFinishBatchJobStatus resultstatus = await clientadmin.Files.UploadSessionFinishBatchCheckAsync(jobid);if (resultstatus.AsComplete != null && resultstatus.AsComplete.Value != null){FileMetadata filemetadata = null;foreach (var…
What is the best way to check access token is expired
I need to know the most appropriate way to check my access token is expired or not? Can anyone suggest with an example
Can I use the API to validate a previously manually generated link URL and find out file info?
Over the last several years a group of people have loaded files into Dropbox, manually copied a link to that file from Dropbox browser and stored the link in an external database. Now we have over 700 entries in the database. Some of the links are no longer valid (the dropbox file was deleted) and some are in the wrong…
Error in call to API function "auth/token/from_oauth1": Invalid value in HTTP header "Authorization"
I am using the POST request to get an new access token from this link. When clicking <get app key and secret> I get a single string value. With these values I am running this POST request using Python's requests library. The error message I get is: Error in call to API function "auth/token/from_oauth1": Invalid value in…
Get Access Token key
I want API for get access token key in php API
Creating webhooks
This is all rocket science so please forgive me. I have a csv file that is stored within Dropbox. I'd like to use a no code automation service (Zapier or Integromat as an example) to collect the contents of the csv, process the numbers within it, and then store it elsewhere. From a little bit of experimentation I have been…
Turn off sending emails for add file member endpoint
Hi, I am using the following endpoints : https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/add_file_member https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/add_folder_member to share few thousand files/folders. This generates emails for each file/folder I have added permissions. I don't want emails to be sent when I add a member to a file/folder.…

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