Cannot upload Image file with Dropbox API in C# - uploading corrupt image instead

[jimkirk]

Hello.

I am trying to upload an image file into my dropbox account with the dropbox api. The image is being uploaded using this code, but it's a corrupt image.

Here is my code:

        public async Task UploadToDropbox()
        {
            using (var dbx = new DropboxClient(dbToken))
            {
                string srcFilePath = @"~\useruploads\";
                string srcFileName = "image1.png";
                string srcFile = srcFilePath + srcFileName;
                string targetFolder = "/uploads";
                string targetFileName = "userupload_" + DateTime.Now.ToString("yymmssfff") + ".png";
                                
                
                //byte[] readContent = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(srcFile); //uploading corrupt file
                //byte[] readContent = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(srcFile); //uploading corrupt file
                //var readContent = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(srcFile); //uploading nothing
                //byte[] readContent = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(srcFile); //uploading nothing

                using (var mem = new MemoryStream(readContent))
                {
                    var updated = await dbx.Files.UploadAsync(
                        targetFolder + "/" + targetFileName,
                        WriteMode.Overwrite.Instance,
                        body: mem);
                }
            }
        }

Thank you for any help.

[Greg-DB · Accepted solution]

If you want to upload a local file, you can just do something like this:

using (var file = new FileStream(srcFile, FileMode.Open))
{
    var updated = await dbx.Files.UploadAsync(
        targetFolder + "/" + targetFileName,
        WriteMode.Overwrite.Instance,
        body: file);
}

You'll probably want to add some checking/exception handling to make sure the local file actually exists at that path though.

[jimkirk]

Unfortunately, with that change, the program isn't going into the using bracket. I tried it out with a try/finally and it seems to just go back to the main method after the "var file = new FileStream(srcFile, FileMode.Open)" line. Any idea why that's happening?

Edit: This was happening because the route was incorrect - your reply worked, thank you!