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Douglas16
8 years agoExplorer | Level 4
What is the difference between 'upload' and 'create_folder' ?
What is the difference between 'upload' and 'create_folder'?Because I type the 'upload' command passing a folder that don't exist, the command create automatically the folder with the file inside, in...
- 8 years ago
The specifics will depend on your system, what language, what library/SDK, if any, you're using etc., but in general you'd use the local path you access the local file using whatever file access API your programming language supplies, and put the read data in the upload API call.
Douglas16
Explorer | Level 4
Hmmm, I got it, so, how I do to upload a file in a determinated folder of my local machine to the dropbox using this command 'upload' ? I means: how or where I shoul set the path of local file?
Greg-DB
8 years agoDropbox Staff
The specifics will depend on your system, what language, what library/SDK, if any, you're using etc., but in general you'd use the local path you access the local file using whatever file access API your programming language supplies, and put the read data in the upload API call.
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