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ivanhigueram
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago

[Python V2] How to do batch upload?

Hi!  I am trying to upload several files using the sessions and batch operators in the Dropbox SDK for Python. I'm trying to do something like this:  dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(<API KEY>) commit_info...
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9krausec
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

Greg - Thank you again. No errors were returned. Just states that status is "in-progress"

UploadSessionFinishBatchJobStatus('in_progress', None)


I'll tell ya what - You follow me through here to the end and I bet this is going to be an excellent reference for everyone else using Python. I'm actually surprised I wasn't able to find a working example in this forum, or in the examples on git.

In the meantime I'll keep at it. 

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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

9krausec That indicates that the job is not done yet. You'll need to poll it until it's complete. That is, call it once every few seconds until it returns the result.

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