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aosingh
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8 years ago
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List all files & folders in the root namespace for a user.

My aim is to list all the folders/files that belong to a user's dropbox account.    My test user has 2 name-spaces as shown below: root_namespace_id=u'XXXXXXXX', home_namespace_id=u'XXXXXXXXX')  ...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    8 years ago

    In order to access the team root using the Python SDK, you'll need to use `with_path_root` like this:

    dbx.with_path_root(dropbox.common.PathRoot.root("XXXXXXXXX")).files_list_folder("")

    Apologies this isn't better documented yet!

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Greg-DB
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8 years ago

In order to access the team root using the Python SDK, you'll need to use `with_path_root` like this:

dbx.with_path_root(dropbox.common.PathRoot.root("XXXXXXXXX")).files_list_folder("")

Apologies this isn't better documented yet!

  • aosingh's avatar
    aosingh
    Explorer | Level 4
    8 years ago
    Thank you Greg, for your reply, I will test this and let you know if this works.

    Regards.
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    aosingh
    Explorer | Level 4
    8 years ago

    This works as expected. 

     

    Thank you Greg. 

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