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Patricklimkc
10 months agoNew member | Level 2
File location if there were 2 active short life tokens being active
I have been using the Dropbox API, https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload, to upload files. This was a scoped app. The token was short life and would expire. This would prevent me from upl...
Patricklimkc
New member | Level 2
Ah, I recheck my code, the files disappeared from my computer because i have a remove.file on my end.
but if anyone knows how to see if the files got uploaded somewhere apart from the app folder, please do let me know. thanks!
Здравко
10 months agoLegendary | Level 20
Hi Patricklimkc,
At the upload end you should receive either error or file metadata (on success). The metadata contains full path together with everything else. That's where you can find where every just uploaded file resides. 😉
Hope this helps.
PS: Keep in mind that when your application is "App Folder" type, all paths (including such returned as metadata part) are relative to the application specific folder, not to account root nor user home.
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