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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

Ok. Maybe generate an error if the query is required? However, I was simply trying to get all entries with a "file_categories":[{".tag":"folder"}], regardless of the name of the file. Is there no  way to do a wildcard search?

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    DB-Des
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    5 months ago

    schmidtc63​ 

    The ability to do a wildcard search isn't currently available on the Dropbox API, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

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