Create Sharelink issues for files not uploaded yet

Question

I set this parameter before generating a sharelink: dropbox.sharing.PendingUploadMode.folder

This works fine as long if I don`t go deeper that one (not yet indexed folder) folder.
So if create folder/folder2 and they are not indexed yet the API will throw an error on generating a sharelink for folder2.

I understand this behaviour. Dropbox can not know (yet) which parent folders exist and therefore throws a lookup error. Is there any way to work around this? We sometimes add a lot of files which causes delays in indexing (and therefore the generate sharelink issues)

Example of error:

updateApiError('5c3ff85396c07b0dc59c6b5e53703877', CreateSharedLinkError(u'path', LookupError(u'not_found', None)))

Greg-DB · Answer

There isn't an option to change that behavior, so the only workaround that comes to mind is to explicitly create the parent folder(s) first. We'll consider it a feature request for a better way to do this though.

jgroen · Answer

Gotcha. Can you tell me how the official Dropbox client handles this particular situation? Would it also fail, or does it use the workaround? Many thanks

Greg-DB · Answer

The official Dropbox client works in a very different way entirely, so it isn't a useful comparison unfortunately.

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