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Charles R.5
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

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...
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Greg-DB
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7 years ago

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.

Charles R.5's avatar
Charles R.5
Explorer | Level 4
7 years ago
Thanks Greg. The 'id' feature is useful.

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