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Nenciu D.'s avatar
Nenciu D.
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10 years ago

Delete file from dropbox

I'm using Dropbox SDK v2 and I want to delete an item (folder or file) . Is it possible? Thank you
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

This is definitely a little confusing in this case, but isDeleted just tells you if the returned Metadata object is of type DeletedMetdata, and not if the remote file is deleted. The delete method never returns a DeletedMetadata though, so isDeleted won't be true. You should instead use the call successfully completing as the indicator that the delete operation worked. 

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