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bramburn
Explorer | Level 3
7 years ago
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socket.timeout issue even with session upload

Hello I have quite a large amount of files on my machine and I have given up using the dropbox app as it just will not sync. I am using the dropbox python sdk but I am having socket.timeout issues....
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    7 years ago

    bramburn Please try replacing this line:

    dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(ACCESS_TOKEN)

    with this instead:

    dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(ACCESS_TOKEN, timeout=None)

    Then try again and let me know if that does or doesn't help.

    Also, you don't need those time.sleep calls, so you can remove those.

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Greg-DB
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7 years ago

bramburn Please try replacing this line:

dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(ACCESS_TOKEN)

with this instead:

dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(ACCESS_TOKEN, timeout=None)

Then try again and let me know if that does or doesn't help.

Also, you don't need those time.sleep calls, so you can remove those.

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bramburn
Explorer | Level 3
7 years ago

thank you that worked!

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