File list not working, looks like Dropbox made a serialization change.

[Hopasaurus]

Listing files recently became intermittent then just plain stopped working.

I dug in and found this line:

https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader/blob/master/dropbox_uploader.sh#L1167

which has this sed command:

local DIR_CONTENT=$(sed -n 's/.*: \[{\(.*\)/\1/p' "$RESPONSE_FILE" | sed 's/}, *{/}\
    {/g')

which looks for colon space open-square-braket.

The issue was that there was no space in between the colon and bracket in the /tmp/du_resp_temp file.

when I changed that to:

local DIR_CONTENT=$(sed -n 's/.*: *\[{\(.*\)/\1/p' "$RESPONSE_FILE" | sed 's/}, *{/}\
    {/g')

everything started working again.

Will see about making a pull request soon but in the mean time wanted to post this in case is saves anyone else a little time.

[grossermensch]

Thanks, just noticed the same issue and that fixed it!

[repl-chris]

thanks @Hopasaurus, saved me several hours I'm sure 😊

[jcp-sd]

See issue #605 that addresses a very similar bug with the "space" command.

The fix provided there is probably more robust to future changes by Dropbox.

The suggestion was to use "\s*" rather than " *" where \s expands to any whitespace character, not just " "

I used:

local DIR_CONTENT=$(sed -n 's/.*:\s*\[{\(.*\)/\1/p' "$RESPONSE_FILE" | sed 's/}, *{/}\ {/g')

Thanks for the detective work! It's alive again...

[AndreyVMarkelov]

As option to use https://github.com/dropbox/dbxcli

[Filnet53]

Thanks for this work!