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from_lookup/not_found
Hello, I am running into an interesting issue when trying to copy a file from one shared folder to another. I was receiving a response that the file could not be found with the path I provided. I...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffI'll be happy to help with any issues you're having with the Dropbox API, but I'll need some more information. Please reply with:
- the name and version number of the SDK/library you are using, if any
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Just saw a similar type or error as this.
Using the HTML api interface directly
Error response is: {"error_summary": "not_found/...", "error": {".tag": "not_found"}}
The process of doing this is
a) generate a copyref, then (aka from https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/copy_reference/get
b) use it in a post to https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/copy_reference/save
Tokens are valid (all using new short lived tokens).
The function works on basically all our users except one test case at this time (aka a problem account)
Here's the copyref failing as I write this:
create the reference
{"path":"id:Hs9eoD0tX5UAAAAAAAAADg"}
{"metadata": {".tag": "folder", "name": "TheDishEpisode_SHR_F178_EN_US_20_2K_20220926_AutoDCP_SMPTE_OV", "path_lower": "/dcps/thedishepisode_shr_f178_en_us_20_2k_20220926_autodcp_smpte_ov", "path_display": "/dcps/TheDishEpisode_SHR_F178_EN_US_20_2K_20220926_AutoDCP_SMPTE_OV", "id": "id:Hs9eoD0tX5UAAAAAAAAADg"}, "copy_reference": "AAAAALfD6UEyOG5oaHZqYjZlY3M", "expires": "2052-09-22T22:00:35Z"}Actually do the copy with the above refernce
{"copy_reference":"AAAAALfD6UEyOG5oaHZqYjZlY3M","path":"\/deliverables\/tciff2022\/d1\/adam@adambarta.com\/TheDishEpisode_SHR_F178_EN_US_20_2K_20220926_AutoDCP_SMPTE_OV"}
And the results
{"error_summary": "not_found/.", "error": {".tag": "not_found"}}
- Greg-DB
brian q. As Здравко, please check the source is still available at the time of the save call, as that would be typical cause of an error like that. Otherwise, feel free to open an API ticket with some additional details if you'd like us to look into it specifically. In particular, the account IDs for the source account and the receiving account as well as several sample 'X-Dropbox-Request-Id' response header values for a few of these failures would likely be useful in this case.
So how many years later, finally got an answer to this odd behavior.
In short, the issue for "not found" does not really give you much to go on. Specially when you know the files exist (cuz your own code put it there in the test). The problem was/is the user account. Accounts can have their 'sharing' feature disabled due to whatever reasons, unfofrtunately the API just gets a NOT_FOUND type message, with no further information, the web hooks seem to have access to more info, maybe the api's do as well or maybe there's an additional info lookup on such things, but for now I'm saying this 'bug' is resolved.
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