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FinervaStu
10 months agoHelpful | Level 5
sharing/remove_folder_member endpoint throwing 500 error
I've been using the api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/remove_folder_member endpoint for a number of years without issue. After the scheduled maintenance last night (2025-02-06) I'm receiving a 500 respons...
Samuel Balraj
10 months agoNew member | Level 1
Hi Team,
I am facing an issue while trying to remove a team member from a shared folder.Could you please check if this is a known issue or provide any troubleshooting steps
dropbox.exceptions.InternalServerError: InternalServerError('fa7e0df00bfb4b6eb94affc96cc414f0', 500, '')
dbx.sharing_remove_folder_member(
File "/root/env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/dropbox/base.py", line 5416, in sharing_remove_folder_member
r = self.request(
File "/root/env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/dropbox/dropbox_client.py", line 326, in request
res = self.request_json_string_with_retry(host,
File "/root/env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/dropbox/dropbox_client.py", line 476, in request_json_string_with_retry
return self.request_json_string(host,
File "/root/env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/dropbox/dropbox_client.py", line 595, in request_json_string
self.raise_dropbox_error_for_resp(r)
File "/root/env/lib/python3.10/site-packages/dropbox/dropbox_client.py", line 620, in raise_dropbox_error_for_resp
raise InternalServerError(request_id, res.status_code, res.text)
dropbox.exceptions.InternalServerError: InternalServerError('fa7e0df00bfb4b6ebc96cc414f0', 500, '')
DB-Des
Dropbox Community Moderator
10 months agoHi Samuel Balraj,
As FinervaStu mentioned, the reported issue has been resolved, you should be able to remove folder members using the "dbmid".
Please let us know if you are also seeing unusually long times with the async jobs though. If so, please provide a few of the affected async job IDs.
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