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Kevin H.27
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

BadResponseException: Bad JSON

Dear Dropbox Community, I am using the Dropbox API v2 for my Android app. Lately I have been seeing issues when trying to download a file with client.files().download() where the file does not (yet...
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Kevin H.27's avatar
Kevin H.27
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Yes, I see this behaviour for 100% of my calls, if the file requested to download does not exist. If it does, everything works fine. All other calls I use also work fine.

As for users, I have no reports yet. But you could easily try it yourself, simply get my "Simple Podcatcher" app from Google Play and try to syncing via Dropbox. If you connect your device via adb, you should be able to see the error message.

Thanks for your help!

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