How to Get Django, Storages and Dropbox to work

[dedayoa]

Hello Guys,
Desperate fellow here. I've done the following, but the farthest I got was this error
dropbox.rest.ErrorResponse: [400] {'path': "Invalid path '/c:\\Users\\Dayo\\git2\\loudam\\static\\css\\animate.css': character at index 3: backslash not allowed"}

1. Installed Storages
2. Installed the python dropbox SDK
3. Added storages to INSTALLED_APPS
4. Configured my DROPBOX_OAUTH2_TOKEN to the Generated access token
5. Configured DROPBOX_ROOT_PATH to 'static' - I really don't know what this should be

I then try to collecstatic, then I run into the error I earlier pasted.
My goal is actually to be able to upload to and serve media files from dropbox (for a site hosted on heroku)

Any help will be much appreciated.

[ZuluPro]

Hello @dedayoa
Thanks for report this issue.

Could you give us the following things:

• The traceback of the error
• Your STATIC_ROOT

This error appears clearly Windows-related.

[jschneier]

This looks like a Windows issue

[jschneier]

Ah related to #137 and #138.

[dedayoa]

Hi @jschneier
Thanks for getting back. However, I moved to Amazon S3, seeing that dropbox will be killing the public folder on the 15th anyway.
I no longer have the configurations in place.
B.R

[jschneier]

@dedayoa thanks for the update. going to close this as a dupe of the above issues in that case.