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gmacerola
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Empty files on upload

I have seen that this issue has been presented a few times before however, those solutions haven't helped in completed this last task for my app.   I am using React Native with Expo.  I am using Im...
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gmacerola
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

I was able to read the base64 data that I got back and then used that to upload.  So I am uploading a variable that has the base64 stuff and now the upload is 1.06mb but is still corrupted/not viewable.  Any idea?

 

let data = result.uri.split(",")[1];

setImageData(data);
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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

When you upload data to Dropbox via the API, you should upload the actual file data, without any encoding (such as base64 encoding). Dropbox does not apply any decoding on the uploaded file data; it will just commit what you send. Try uploading the data without the base64 encoding. 

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    gmacerola
    Explorer | Level 3
    4 years ago

    I understand.  I just can't seem to find a way to convert the base64 data to binary in react-native.

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