# Send message error 'file must be required'
**URL:** https://community.sendbird.com/t/send-message-error-file-must-be-required/3800
**Category:** API
**Created:** [January 17, 2022, 2:15am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/send-message-error-file-must-be-required/3800 "2022-01-17T02:15:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@nddm](https://community.sendbird.com/u/nddm)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2022, 2:15am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/send-message-error-file-must-be-required/3800/1 "2022-01-17T02:15:20Z")
Hello,
I keep getting the following error data when I try to send a message to a group\_channel with the platform API. I’m using Node and axios.
```auto
data: {
message: "\"file\" must be required.",
code: 400105,
error: true,
},
}
```
I use the following code:
```auto
let url = `${BASE_URL}/v3/group_channels/${channel_url}/messages`;
const form = new FormData();
const boundaryString = form.getBoundary();
let binaryHeaders = {};
let binaryContentType = `Content-Type`;
binaryHeaders[binaryContentType] = `multipart/form-data; boundary=${boundaryString}`;
let binaryHeaderApiToken = `Api-Token`;
binaryHeaders[binaryHeaderApiToken] = `${TOKEN}`;
form.append('message_type', "FILE");
form.append('user_id', userId);
form.append('file', file);
let response = await axios.post(url, form, {
headers: binaryHeaders
});
```
It’s the same code I use to upload the user’s profile\_image yet here it always says the file must be required. I’ve tried passing a buffer, local file location, stream and it returns the same error all the time even though I’m passing the file in the form.
Can you help me please?
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### Author:  [@Tyler](https://community.sendbird.com/u/Tyler)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2022, 1:46am UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/send-message-error-file-must-be-required/3800/2 "2022-01-18T01:46:13Z")
Hey @nddm,
Welcome to the Sendbird Community. Let me take a look into this and see if I can recreate it.
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### Author:  [@nddm](https://community.sendbird.com/u/nddm)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/send-message-error-file-must-be-required/3800/3 "2022-01-19T14:52:34Z")
Hey, thank you.
Let me know if you need any more information.
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### Author:  [@phil](https://community.sendbird.com/u/phil)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.sendbird.com/t/send-message-error-file-must-be-required/3800/5 "2022-05-05T18:16:16Z")
Ran into the same issue, solved by adding a filename to the FormData append:
```auto
form.append('file', file, "filename.jpg");
```