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cloudlock
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

HTTP 409 when using copy_reference/save

Hi team, when using copy_reference/get as admin user I get the copy_reference field of a file R and it works well. when trying to copy_reference/save R to a path P I get an error of: '{"error_summ...
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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
2 years ago

Hi cloudlock,

First of all, keep in mind that path is a path to target file, not path to containing folder. If by any chance that folder exists, you have instructed Dropbox to overwrite folder with file - something impossible. Another reason could be that just on the pointed path (on place of some folder) there is a file already that cannot be transformed to folder, of course. Check this.

Good luck.

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