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Save files to Dropbox?

How would I specify the folder (dropbox) for python to save data to? I know how it would be on my computer, but what is the path on PA?

-Thanks

deleted-user-8106 | 3 posts | Jan. 17, 2012, 7:56 p.m. | permalink

Hello!

You are in a Linux environment so can just give the full path.

In your case that would be '/home/cwbh10/Dropbox/<your shared folder>/'

Make sense?

Staff hansel | 459 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | Jan. 18, 2012, 10:57 a.m. | permalink

yay, I thought so. Cool Beans. I'm just making a nice little backup script for my ftp server. I <3 Python Anywhere :)

deleted-user-8106 | 3 posts | Jan. 18, 2012, 9:06 p.m. | permalink

:-) thanks!

Staff giles | 12095 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | Jan. 19, 2012, 10:50 a.m. | permalink

the perms on my Dropbox folder seem wrong...so I can't write to it... anyone else have this problem?

In [26]: ls -ld Dropbox drwxr-xr-x 3 65432 0 62 Apr 3 02:39 Dropbox/

deleted-user-25020 | 2 posts | April 4, 2012, 10:16 p.m. | permalink

er, nevermind, I can write to the folder UNDER that one --as per the README.txt if I was to have read carefully.

drwxrwxr-x 2 65432 registered_users 64 Apr 4 22:18 pythonanywhere/

deleted-user-25020 | 2 posts | April 4, 2012, 10:20 p.m. | permalink

Yes, that does frequently trip people up. I think we need to special case the error message in some way so that people don't think they are doing something wrong.

Cheers

Staff hansel | 459 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | April 5, 2012, 11:13 a.m. | permalink