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Cynthia B.2's avatar
Cynthia B.2
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

500 internal Server Error https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/list_folder/continue

I've using the following endpoint  to retrieve files and folders: https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/list_folder this returns 2000 entries and then get hasmore = true and the cursor. I then user th...
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Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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9 years ago

Hi sfbrad, no, there's no entry limit for a cursor. This error just indicates something happened to go wrong for that particular call. If you share a X-Dropbox-Request-Id response header value, I can look this up for you.

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sfbrad
Explorer | Level 4
9 years ago
Thanks for the reply.

X-Dropbox-Request-Id: 7c19057695051c5944f59c0644e3ae1a
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    9 years ago
    Thanks! That's helpful. That's the same issue as reported by thedeck earlier in this thread. I'll follow up here once I have an update.
    • Ashley B.15's avatar
      Ashley B.15
      Helpful | Level 7
      9 years ago

      Hi,

      Is there any update to the orginal post made by Cynthia back in August last year?  I have been asked to follow up on this?

      Thanks

      • Greg-DB's avatar
        Greg-DB
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        9 years ago
        The team has been working to resolve these issues, but the error rate is still non-zero.

        These multiple issues appear identically to the API client though, so if you need us to check on a specific issue, please open a ticket with a new X-Dropbox-Request-Id value:

        https://www.dropbox.com/developers/contact
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    Greg-DB
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    9 years ago

    Regarding the errors reporting by thedeck and sfbrad, these 500s can be caused by certain file metadata not being available yet, at the time of the API call. The team has been working on improvements around this. When this information is still not available, Dropbox will now be returning 429s, to instruct the app to call back later, when the metadata will be available.

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