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Shushu
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5 years ago

Corrupted Files using API in PowerShell

Hi All.     I'm using the below code in powershell but for some reason the files get corrupted once they arrived to dropbox folder.  If i transfer the file manually there's no issues, the error it'...
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Shushu
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

Thanks for your reply. 

 

  I'm downloading .tiff files and the size varies 4.9MB, 9MB, 44MB, 106MB, files less than 4MB they get to the dropbox without issues, once the file is at my download folder, i'm changing the file name (Get-ChildItem -Path C:\User\Downloads -Filter *.tiff | Rename-Item -NewName {$Name+ $_.extension}) and then using the API to sent the file over. 

 

Regards. 

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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

I just tried again with a .tiff file, about 10 MB, and it still worked correctly for me, so it sounds like there's something in your environment not working as expected.

 

Is there some sort of file size limit or timeout on your network client?

 

How does the size of the corrupted uploaded file compare to the original file? In what way is it corrupted exactly? Have you inspected the contents?

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