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Getting the local path of file uploaded via Box uploader

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    Alex Novotny

    Hey Noah, 

    Can you expand further on what you mean by local path? 

    Thanks. 

    Alex, Box Developer Advocate

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  • NoahK

    Alex,

    Apologies, maybe I mean relative path. What I am trying to do, once a file is dropped in the Box ContentUploader, is to programmatically grab the path of the file on the user's computer, i.e. /Users/user/Desktop/filename.mp4 or whatever it might be. I would then use that path to set the value of 'fileUp' in the code snippet in order to get the file duration. So far I have tried uploader.on('complete'...) and uploader.on('upload'...) but those only seem to return information from the uploaded file in Box. I am hoping there is some way that the ContentUploader knows the file's location that it is uploading from.

    Thanks,

    Noah

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  • Alex Novotny

    I reached out to our UI Elements team. Grabbing the path from the uploading computer is not a feature of the content uploader. It looks like the web browsers block us from getting that information. 

    Alex 

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  • NoahK

    Thanks for looking into it Alex, much appreciated!

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