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heavy-paper-user
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago

Export file: Size and content_hash mismatch?

Hi there, We use the Dropbox API to fetch and export Paper documents. Recently (like 2 days ago) we observed that the API is returning, what seems to us, inconsistent values. For example, we add...
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Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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4 years ago

These issues should be fixed now. Please try again and let me know if you're still seeing any issues.

 

Also, note that for /2/files/export, you should compare the exported data with the 'export_hash' value, not the 'content_hash', since this is an export and not a direct download.

  • heavy-paper-user's avatar
    heavy-paper-user
    Explorer | Level 3
    4 years ago

    Thanks Greg. Yes, sorry, we were using export_hash in our real code.

     

    And yup, the tests that were catching this seem to have passed now. Thanks for the update!

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