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catinlonelywind
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

[Help] Cannot download file if the file name has spaces

when i use download API, it works well if download FileName does not has space.   But return eroor 400 if download FileName has space such as "a   b.png",   it says `Something went wrong....
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jundervaber
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

This is strange -- it used to not do this -- it just started for me today. I worked-around the problem by renaming the file to remove spaces or replace them with underscores, and I was able to open PDFs in Edge.

 

 

 

 

 

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Greg-DB
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3 years ago

jundervaber This thread was about interacting with the developer interface for Dropbox. If you're running in to any issues with the Dropbox product itself, you can open a thread in the " Help from the Community" section.

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