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ms97
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Error (415) from Python files_upload API

Hello, I am trying to write a python script to automatically store an excel file in dropbox.  My excel file is created from turning dataframes into excel sheets.  This file has 5 sheets with a diffe...
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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
credentially-dev-team wrote:

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FileMetadata(..., size=0, ...)

So my problem has nothing to do with the file itself because it has been uploaded into another folder successfully:

FileMetadata(..., size=0, ...)

What do you think it could be?

Hi credentially-dev-team,

I think you cannot read those empty archives content in both cases. 🙋

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credentially-dev-team
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

@Здравко

 

Yes, but still. Via UI I can see the file in Folder1 so it turns out empty files can be uploaded 🙂

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    Greg-DB
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    2 years ago

    credentially-dev-team Dropbox allows you to upload empty files (that is, files with size of 0), but empty files are not valid zip files.

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