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kult
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6 years ago

Error 410 thumbnailUrl

I am using the dropbox chooser to save file ids from dropbox to my backend. The thumbnailUrl generated by dropbox works for sometime but then starts throwing a 410. The file was not moved. Separate q...
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Greg-DB
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6 years ago

The thumbnail links returned by the Chooser currently expire after four hours, at which point accessing them will fail with this 410 error.

There isn't a way to get permanent thumbnail links from the Chooser, but I'll ask the team to update it to offer this, or at least better document this.

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