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Lakshmi Narayana's avatar
Lakshmi Narayana
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago

Re: How to get a path to a Dropbox file in order to use the files_download function in python?

For some reason, using files_list_folder().entries.path_lower is giving me this error: dropbox.exceptions.ApiError: ApiError('496762b8575c8f262949ace63f24a1fe', ListFolderError('path', LookupError(...
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Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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5 years ago

A 'path/not_folder' error indicates that the path you're trying to list is not a folder. You should make sure that the 'path' value you pass to files_list_folder refers to a folder, not a file.

 

When you get the results, if 'path_lower' is not set, that indicates that the item is not mounted. You can find more information on what this means in the Content Access Guide.

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