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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...
Just out of interest do you have an API directive that only deletes folders. So, that if a file path is sent in by mistake, the request fails?
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorNo, we don't have anything like that, but I'll pass that along as a feature request.
- Greg. Thanks. Expanding, on my original request. Although, it is possible to check the 'get_metadata' of the path to find out whether the '.tag' is a folder or file, & then send a delete directive, this is a little long winded. It would be great, if Dropbox could add another argument to the 'delete' directive, called 'only_delete_path_of_tag_type', with possible values of 'file' & 'folder'. This would be a really cool feature...
- Greg-DB
Charles R.5 I just wanted to follow up on this with two notes:
- The team pointed out that if you want to make sure you're deleting a folder, you can specify the folder's "id" as the `path` value for the delete_v2 call
- For the opposite case, where you want to make sure you're deleting a specific file, we added a `parent_rev` parameter to delete_v2.
- Thanks Greg. The 'id' feature is useful.
- {"error":true,"msg":"The token paramter is missing. Cannot authorize API request.","data":[]}
- Greg-DB
noornoor12gmal If you're having trouble with the Dropbox API, please open a new thread with the details of the issue. Thanks!
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