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Eric S.36
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10 years ago

What is causing dropbox error 401

I just created a new app within dropbox, ( I already had code working for a different account  and a different app ) I'm linking the dropbox account in the application delegate     NSString* appKey...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

The error message is "No auth method found", meaning the API didn't receive an authorization method, which in the case of the iOS Core SDK, as you appear to be using, should be OAuth 1 signing with a valid access token. That should be mostly done for you, as long as you followed the tutorial.

Can you share the rest of the relevant code? (E.g., where you have the user link the app, set up the session, and set up the client?)

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