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Jan B.23's avatar
Jan B.23
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11 years ago

unreliable data transfer w/ API

Hi, I'm using API to transfer data from my computer to Dropbox. For 50 500MB files 5 have failed with the error like this: Uploading "/var/lib/condor/execute/dir_2220/oneA.e15.oswrk136_500GB.da...
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Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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11 years ago

Thanks for the additional information. I don't think I see the actual response or error in there though. If you get a response from the API, it should contain an error message in the body. If you don't (e.g., if the connection fails) I would expect curl to show a network error of some sort. Can you print those out?

In any case, 100 MB is a pretty large chunk size, so I recommend trying something smaller, perhaps 50 MB or smaller. (API calls for large chunks can time out.) Let me know if that doesn't help.

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