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Internal Server Error 500 when sharing folder
When running my code I can share a folder one or two times but then I receive the Internal Server Error 500 afterwards. Creating the shared folder works: client.sharing.shareFolder(path: path...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThe team is looking into this, but they're asking if you can share a little more context on the failure rate you're seeing. Specifically, you mentioned it "does not work in 80% of the times", but can you offer some more details on that? For instance, are you always seeing an 80% failure rate on these calls, or does it only fail at that rate sometimes?
Also, are you running multiple addFolderMember calls at the same time? (Note that it runs asynchronously.)
Thanks!
What I have found is that when I log in the first time for the day it works a few times. Then only intermittently.
Yesterday afternoon I could not get addFolderMember to work at all. Tried perhaps 10-20 times but no success.
Interestingly enough, the folder always gets created. Which would seem to prove that I am logged in and have set up the client correctly? Also I checked to ensure that the sharedFolderID gets passed into addFolderMember.
I only call addFolderMember once.
One thing I did notice - it seems that my success rate is slightly higher if I pause the program after the folder is created but before addFolderMember is called. But it is far from 100%.
I hope this helps. Please let me know if you need any more details. Thanks!
- Greg-DB
Thanks for the additional information!
Hi Greg
Do you have any further information? I am stuck and cannot get my app to work reliably with this issue still open.
Thank you very much.- Greg-DB
This is still open with engineering, but I don't have an update to report yet. I'll follow up here once I do.
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