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mvpetri
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8 years ago

Unable to upload a small file (less than 20mb) due to timeout

I'm trying to use the files_upload (through the Pythoon api) but I'm getting an error if the file is somewhat larger, but less than 20MB.   The documentation states that files_upload shouldn't be u...
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago

Thanks for the report! We're looking into it.

 

As a workaround, please try setting an unlimited timeout when constructing your Dropbox client, like this:

dropbox.Dropbox(ACCESS_TOKEN, timeout=None)

Please let me know if that does or doesn't help.

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