Richard P. Super User Alumni

You are going to have to download the file in order to read it - that's the way the internet works. Dropbox won't stream the data to you, you need a database server to do that, and that is an approach that your client seems to have outright rejected. The only way you can approach this is to create a Dropbox app which has…

What is the apps status in your developer dashboard?

Thought so :) Its your browser which is "converting" it into a text file during the downloading process, not Dropbox I'm afraid :) You probably have .sav files associated with the app which opens the text file, and the browser is using that.

Are you downloading them via your browser?

Its likely to be an Excel issue, as googling "excel couldnt find file" shows several potential issues that throw that error message. Its quite common if you have linked documents or code in an Excel file and you move one of the files from its expected location.

I'm afraid thats an issue with your local operating system and not Dropbox, as Dropbox doesn't handle opening of local files, or moving/copying them. Are you per chance opening an Excel or Word file?

Version 1 of the Dropbox API for Python has a tutorial for uploading here: https://www.dropbox.com/developers-v1/core/start/python Version 2 of the Dropbox API for Python has one here: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/python#tutorial

https://www.dropbox.com/developers-v1/core/docs#media

Dropbox hasnt yet, so I wouldnt count on it. The only discount they offer is the $99 annual subscription vs 12 x $9.99 monthly subscriptions.

I'd be happy to chat professionally if you take up Marks advice :)

What you want to do is find a solution which indexes the content in Dropbox and allows you to query those indices - there are many ways to do this, depending on what your platform options are.

There are plenty of database systems out there that would handle this perfectly, no need to bolt a half assed solution onto Dropbox.

I have reported this to Dropbox.

Dropbox should not be used as a network transport layer for any database, it simply wouldnt reliably work and will end in tears. You arent really going to be able to accomplish what you are after with a "low tech solution". You need a proper network aware solution such as swapping out your Access backend for SQL Server -…

No.

If you want access to the users account, they have to be involved and they have to give their credentials via Oauth, which means you do not get them. Once they have authed that first time, you get a token you can save and use instead, and you can use that silently - but to get that token, the user must be willingly and…

No, because you cannot do it - you must show the dialog as the SDK says - the code you have in your original post is the correct way to do it.

You cant do it through code, the entire point of it is so you do not handle user credentials in your code, you pass it off to the Dropbox OAuth system and get a token back in return.

Did you follow the v1 instructions to install the v1 Python sdk? https://www.dropbox.com/developers-v1/core/sdks/python

And the exception is correct - you cannot wrap the Dropbox login or authentication screen in that way, it has to be in its own instance outside of your application. The entire point of forcing you to show the login or authentication screen is to limit the chances that you have of accessing the users credentials - if you do…

No, the API is subject to the same limits, you can't avoid the restrictions in that way.

No, no change.

I have checked with our Super User liaison and he has confirmed that you had a reply to a ticket a week ago, so you can check that via the zendesk link above. Also, if you have the billing receipt ID, you can enter it into https://www.dropbox.com/payments/find_receipt and see exactly which account it applies to.

It isn't sarcastic, I just don't have a lot of respect for people who immediately and publicly threaten legal action as a way to be heard. Dropbox doesn't respond to any email support, and only Business accounts have phone support. The only way to query billing issues is to raise a support ticket at www.dropbox.com/support…

*sigh* yes, sure, file legal action as the first resort. Go you. Have you at least tried to see what the charges were for by contacting support at www.dropbox.com/support ? It may be that your paypal account has been compromised and someone has used it to upgrade two Dropbox accounts. Dropbox isn't in the business of…

Dropbox doesnt support FTP, you can only access files via the website, a client ( www.dropbox.com/install ) or the developer API.

With all due respect, you should be changing your password regularly, as in on a monthly basis - doing that and having to reenter your password on each device can be extremely problematic. If someone steals your password, no devices are affected anyway as you do not have to enter your account password to use any of them -…

Its not a security flaw - clients that are connected only use the password for the first time they connect, after that they use a token that they receive on that first authentication. Same goes for all third party apps. Changing your password does not invalidate these tokens, nor should it. You can deauthourise tokens and…

If you joined a business team, the process is fairly explicit as to where you want your existing files to end up - there is an option during the invite acceptance process where you even get the opportunity to create a new account and move your existing files to it. If you didn't do that, then the files are under the…

You need to talk to the admin of your friends Business Team, as it sounds like you accepted an invitation to join their business account, which (unless you follow the prompts otherwise) will subsume your account into the business account. Only the team admin can do anything about this at this stage.