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schmidtc63
New member | Level 2
5 months ago

Retrieve folders recursively

I'm using 2/files/list_folder and 2/files/list_folder/continue. However, there are a couple hundred thousand files here which makes it nearly impossible to get a simple folder structure. Having to p...
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schmidtc63's avatar
schmidtc63
New member | Level 2
5 months ago

I even tried this:

curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/search_v2 \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <MYTOKEN>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'Dropbox-Api-Select-User: dbmid:AACFxh5TjXXXXXXXXXX' \
  --data '{"query":"","options":{"path":"/kickee images","file_extensions":[],"file_categories":[{".tag":"folder"}]}}'

It has been running for 2 hours now.

 

  • DB-Des's avatar
    DB-Des
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    5 months ago

    Hi schmidtc63​ 

    In order for us to further look into this issue for you, please provide us with 5-10 different 'X-Dropbox-Request-Id' response header values.

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