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AmandaCifuentes's avatar
AmandaCifuentes
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago

File id not found for update

I am testing some endpoints in the Dropbox API Explorer.  Using the endpoint /get_metadata I get an id for a file like  id: -x-m_bOc0rAAAAAAAAAA-A Now I want to use the endpoint /update T...
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AmandaCifuentes's avatar
AmandaCifuentes
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago

Thank you for your quick answer. The problem is if I use

id: -x-m_bOc0rAAAAAAAAAA-A

it will tell me the following error:

request body: id: 'id: -x-m_bOc0rAAAAAAAAAA_w' did not match pattern '[-_0-9a-zA-Z]+'

 

Здравко's avatar
Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
6 years ago

Yes, because the id expected is file request id, not file id! As I noted above, they are different. :wink:

Give an answer to yourself: What you are doing on? Files or Requests? And use corresponding API type, finally. Don't mix them!

  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    6 years ago

    Здравко is correct; you're mixing "files" and "file requests" functionality. The "files" endpoints are for interacting with files, whereas the "file_requests" endpoints are for interacting with "file requests", which are a way for users to receive files from other people.

    If you want to update an existing file, that is, to upload a new version of a file, e.g., by specifying the file ID of the existing file, you can use /2/files/upload.

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