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API delete by id:# via CURL
In one script in my FileMaker database solution, I upload a file to a constructed path, then save the unique id:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx number for that record, to tie the record to the file in the DropBox d...
Wookiee, The question of mine was rhetoric! I hoped it'll direct you. Ok... can you see the difference of your 2 posts and figure out alone what's different and wrong or...?
PS: Everywhere some path can be used, the equivalent id can be used too. Even more a hybrid form may be used too: id of a folder followed by a relative path. In all cases that's NOT the issue (I assume the id is correct).
Hi Wookiee,
Are you sure, you have executed exactly that curl command you posted and not something else? 🤔 Why do I ask? The error message states that you have passed "Dropbox-Api-Arg" header, but it's missing on your post! 😉😀
Hope this helps.
I just took the code section from the dev API example... here are the args that is getting sent by FileMaker using it's "Insert from URL" script step:
-X POST --header "Content-Type: application/json" --header "Authorization: Bearer <redacted>" --header "Dropbox-API-Arg: {\"path\":\"id:m5ktIrz8BXoAAAAbAAAASg\"}" --dump-headerWookiee, The question of mine was rhetoric! I hoped it'll direct you. Ok... can you see the difference of your 2 posts and figure out alone what's different and wrong or...?
PS: Everywhere some path can be used, the equivalent id can be used too. Even more a hybrid form may be used too: id of a folder followed by a relative path. In all cases that's NOT the issue (I assume the id is correct).
Not quite there yet, but you have me on the right path, I think...
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