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cjr_lyris's avatar
cjr_lyris
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2 years ago

How to define dropbox file paths in python for the API ???

I simply cannot get this script to provide the the correctly formatted file path to the dropbox API, I keep getting the error that the filepath doesn't exist. And I can't find a definitive answer ...
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Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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2 years ago

A 'malformed_path' error like this indicates that the supplied path wasn't in the expected format. To troubleshoot that, can you print out and share the path value you're sending? It looks like that would be the value of the 'dropbox_path' variable in your code.

 

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