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Continuous I.'s avatar
Continuous I.
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11 years ago

CSharp SDK await dbx.Files.UploadAsync(...) object gets disposed before upload

Hi, although I've mastered uploading text content to Dropbox, when trying to upload byte content (typical file, 18 MB), I get the error: "ERROR: The object was used after being disposed" The code...
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Qiming Y.'s avatar
Qiming Y.
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11 years ago

Thanks for your stack trace. I think you are supposed to get a TaskCancelationException given default time out of 100 sec for HttpClient. However if you are using mono, you may get a ObjectDisposedException due to the bug in

http://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/44502/objectdisposedexception-when-canceling-postasync

In general, to deal with large file upload, we would suggest to use UploadSession endpoint so that you can split the file and upload them via multiple requests. 4 mb would be a good chunk size.

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