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Bob D.20
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9 years ago

Obtaining shared link from VBA (API v2) - 409 Conflict

I have the following code which I modified slightly from this link. The return is a 409 Conflict error. I believe the issue lies in how I'm structuring the path string, but I admit to this being well...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

That's correct, a path/not_found error from /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings indicates "there is nothing at the given path". 

You gave the path "/33602DOX.pdf", so there must not be anything at that path in the account you're calling for. For example, if the file is inside a folder called "Documents", you should supply the path "/Documents/33602DOX.pdf".

(I also don't see you using your "path" variable, with value "Desktop Work File". Should that be part of the path?)

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