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le h.'s avatar
le h.
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9 years ago

Cannot get thumbails from GetThumbnailAsync

I don't see any "icon","thumbail".... using (var dbx = new DropboxClient(Token)) { var list = await dbx.Files.ListFolderAsync(path); foreach(var item in list.Entries) { list1 = await dbx.F...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

The GetThumbnailAsync method gives you IDownloadResponse<FileMetadata>. As shown in the documentation there, there are three different GetContent methods you can call on the response to get the content of the thumbnail requested.

For example, you could get the thumbnail data as a byte array by using: (in your sample though response is list1)

response.GetContentAsByteArrayAsync()

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