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Nellyb43
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5 years ago
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Dropbox API Creating Shared link settings Error.

I have a program in Python 3.9 which cleans data every morning, creates a final dataset, and then uses the dropbox api to create a shared link with settings (password) for the file, then email that l...
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    Nellyb43
    5 years ago

    Very interesting. Do you recommend I upload the file straight to dropbox using the API over using util to simply copy it over from my local directory?

     

    I arbitrarily chose 60 seconds of time to give dropbox time to fully sync up the file in the application folder. Each file is on average 500MB. Do you recommend I go with a longer length of time just to make sure the sync works with sharing no matter what. One minute here and there is no issue.

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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

A 'path/not_found' error like this indicates that creating the shared link failed because there was nothing found at the specified path to link to. In this case, based on the error output, this is referring to the path you're supplying in your 'dailyfile_csv' variable.

 

You'll need to check why there isn't anything at that path. Perhaps you meant to upload something there, but didn't do so successfully. Or, perhaps your 'dailyfile_csv' value is just incorrect. 

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Nellyb43
Helpful | Level 6
5 years ago

So, when running my program I generate the dataset in a folder not in the dropbox app folder, then use shurtil.copyfile to copy that file into the dropbox application folder. 

 

shutil.copyfile(oldpath,dropbox_app_path)

Then to create dailyfile_csv I do 

dailyfile_csv = newpath_csv_dbx.replace('\\','/')[40:]

This takes something like ""D:\Dropbox\Apps\App Folder Name\Daily Data (2020-12-29).dta" and turns it into "/Daily Data (2020-12-29).dta", which is what the dropbox api wants.

 

I do indeed see my file "dailyfile_csv" in the application folder - is there anything else that may be going on?

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    Nellyb43
    Helpful | Level 6
    5 years ago

    That smiley face is actually:  "40 colon ]"

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