Dropbox Python API not updating file

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my code is uploading a txt file to my drop box, but the document it self is empty of content. It only reading inside the title of the file 'test_data.txt', the data itself which is in the real file is not there. The file never updates either when running the script a second time, but I suspect this is because the file is not being updated (it's not actually reading the contents of the .txt file). If anyone could help me with this I would appreciate it.

import dropbox
from dropbox.files import WriteMode
overwrite = WriteMode('overwrite', None)

token = 'xxxx'

dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(token)
dbx.users_get_current_account()
dbx.files_upload('test_data.txt', '/test_data.txt', mode = WriteMode('overwrite'))

mingaleg · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-08 18:49:28Z

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files_upload should recieve a content to upload. In your current code you are asking to upload string "test_data.txt" as file "/test_data.txt".

with open('test_data.txt', 'rb') as fh:
    dbx.files_upload(fh.read(), '/test_data.txt')

answered Dec 8, 2018 at 18:49

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Chris Macaluso Over a year ago

That worked perfectly for loading the actual data onto Dropbox. I seem to be having a problem with the over write though I think once I try to run it again? Do you know why that is? Here's the error: 39790e91b2e957d2ab8414f990', UploadError(u'path', UploadWriteFailed(reason=WriteError(u'conflict', WriteConflictError(u'file', None)), upload_session_id=u'AAAAAAAAE-y8ZxAODG-lkg')))

mingaleg Over a year ago

use mode=dropbox.files.WriteMode.overwrite param in files_upload

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