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bozae
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4 years ago

Error (415) on a file I upload via Dropbox API

I uploaded a .txt file to an app folder via DropBox API with Python. When I try to preview the document, I get an Error (415), and if I attempt to download the txt file via the API, I get an empty fi...
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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

bozae As Здравко explained, it sounds like you'll need to debug your upload process. If something doesn't appear to be working as expected, feel free to share the steps and code to reproduce the issue and any unexpected API error/output so we can take a look.

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