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Charles R.5
8 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Cannot delete a folder with a '.' in the middle its name?
When I use the API to delete a folder with: https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/delete_v2 If the path to the folder is: /somepath/mydomain.com The folder will not delete. Interestingly, a...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
8 years agoThanks for the report. I can't seem to reproduce this issue though. The /2/files/delete_v2 endpoint is successfully deleting a folder with a period in the middle and returning the expected response for me.
Can you share a sample request/response that isn't working as expected, including response headers? Be sure to redact the access token of course. Thanks in advance!
Can you share a sample request/response that isn't working as expected, including response headers? Be sure to redact the access token of course. Thanks in advance!
Charles R.5
8 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Greg. Thanks for the reply.
When I try & delete:
/somepath/mydomain
It deletes successfully every time.
But, when I try & delete:
/somepath/mydomain.com
It does NOT delete the folder and returns an empty response string. Not even an error or 'status_code' is available, so it is very difficult to debug. Any ideas?
I have repeated the test, at least 50 times, using different folder names, with or without the '.' in the middle of the name, and the results are the same, each time.
So, the problem is, I cannot send you response, because there is none!
Thanks
Charlie
When I try & delete:
/somepath/mydomain
It deletes successfully every time.
But, when I try & delete:
/somepath/mydomain.com
It does NOT delete the folder and returns an empty response string. Not even an error or 'status_code' is available, so it is very difficult to debug. Any ideas?
I have repeated the test, at least 50 times, using different folder names, with or without the '.' in the middle of the name, and the results are the same, each time.
So, the problem is, I cannot send you response, because there is none!
Thanks
Charlie
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