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kmsbs
Explorer | Level 4
7 years ago

My uploaded files on Dropbox are 0 bytes/ empty.

I have an app,In this app we are using dropbox v2 for upload or download  a file. I uplaoded a file but it shown as a empty file and 0 byte.
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    7 years ago

    kmsbs In your code, you're actually calling `uploadAndFinish` twice; once on its own, and then again inside your `Log.e` call. When you call the second time, the `inputStream` is consumed, so you end up uploading a zero byte file. Update your code to only do the upload once.

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kmsbs
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hello sir,
any solution
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Greg-DB
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7 years ago

kmsbs In your code, you're actually calling `uploadAndFinish` twice; once on its own, and then again inside your `Log.e` call. When you call the second time, the `inputStream` is consumed, so you end up uploading a zero byte file. Update your code to only do the upload once.

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