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ctubbs
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffPython TypeError using Dropbox API move_v2function
Hi, I am trying to use the API to batch rename file. I had specific questions are around the move_v2 function:
I’m running dropbox.files.move_v2(params), where the args are from_path and to_pa...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorLRomano Thanks for sharing the error. That 'from_lookup/not_found' error does indicate that the issue is that the 'from_path' value doesn't point to anything. That does seem to be because you specified just the name and not the path, as discussed.
The Metadata.path_lower value is just a string containing the path for the item, which might look something like: "/folder/another folder/file.ext".
Since that's just a string, you can operate on it however you need. For instance, you could split it on "/" and take the parts you want, modify them, and build a new path string. Or, you could use a library or module like pathlib to work with it.
Fantastic. I used rsplit with '/' and to pull the lower_path apart giving me the file's directory and the file name.
Then I was able to add some text to the beginning of the file name, concat the whole thing together to create a new_path and it works perfectly!
Thanks so much for your help. Just FYI - code below if you want it (I had a spark DF with 1000s of rows of unique data that I needed to add to the beginning of each file):
result = dbx.files_list_folder(root_path, recursive=True)
index = 0
def process_entries(entries):
for entry in entries:
if isinstance(entry, dropbox.files.FileMetadata):
path = entry.path_lower.rsplit('/', 1)[0]+'/'
file = entry.path_lower.rsplit('/', 1)[1]
path_original = path+file
global index
code = sparkDF.collect()[index][2]
path_new = path+code+'_'+file
print(path_original)
print(path_new)
move = dbx.files_move(from_path=path_original, to_path=path_new)
index += 1
process_entries(result.entries)
while result.has_more:
result = dbx.files_list_folder_continue(result.cursor)
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