How to Undelete a File via the API

Hi everyone,

I was searching for a way to use Dropbox API to restore my files and Google brought me here.

First of all, a bit about my situation:

My computer got a virus that rename all of my files (idk if its recognized as rename or delete on Dropbox) and they are all synced to Dropbox. I want to download all my original files using Dropbox API.

As i can see on web interface, I can download them individually but I got like thousand files so I couldn't do it.

My problem:

I used Python API wrapper to work with Dropbox API. I first fetched all of my files and tried to get all of their revisions but the original files are not included in revision list.

Then I tried to list all of my files including deleted files and I can see my original files listed. I tried to download them using download endpoint but it returned `File not found` error. Has anyone bumped into something similar? How can I solve this issue?

My code snippet:

dbx = dropbox.Dropbox('token is intentionally hidden')
print dbx.users_get_current_account()
for entry in dbx.files_list_folder('', recursive = False, include_deleted = True).entries:
  if (isinstance(entry, dropbox.files.FileMetadata) or isinstance(entry, dropbox.files.DeletedMetadata)):
    if not entry.name.endswith('cerber2'):
      print "name: ", entry.name, "| path: ", entry.path_lower 
      print repr(entry)
      meta = dbx.files_restore(entry.path_lower)
      print repr(meta)
      try:
        meta, resp = dbx.files_download(entry.path_lower)
      except dropbox.exceptions.ApiError as e:
        print e.user_message_text
      print "-" * 80

[Cross-linking for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38912264/restore-deleted-files-using-dropbox-api ]

Hi Sún, it looks like you posted this on StackOverflow too, so I'll help over there, so that we don't spam the other people on this thread.