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bramburn's avatar
bramburn
Explorer | Level 3
6 years ago

socket.timeout issue even with session upload

Hello I have quite a large amount of files on my machine and I have given up using the dropbox app as it just will not sync. I am using the dropbox python sdk but I am having socket.timeout issues....
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    6 years ago

    bramburn Please try replacing this line:

    dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(ACCESS_TOKEN)

    with this instead:

    dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(ACCESS_TOKEN, timeout=None)

    Then try again and let me know if that does or doesn't help.

    Also, you don't need those time.sleep calls, so you can remove those.

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Greg-DB
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Thanks for trying that. That output indicates the upload was succesful, so the issue does seem to be specific to your Python environment/code. We'll take a closer look at the code you shared.

Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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6 years ago

bramburn Please try replacing this line:

dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(ACCESS_TOKEN)

with this instead:

dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(ACCESS_TOKEN, timeout=None)

Then try again and let me know if that does or doesn't help.

Also, you don't need those time.sleep calls, so you can remove those.

  • bramburn's avatar
    bramburn
    Explorer | Level 3
    6 years ago

    thank you that worked!

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