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bbongrip
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9 years ago
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search dropbox folder

can anybody tell me a way to search a specific folder in dropbox to populate an array of strings with the filenames in that folder? Im trying to implement a way for users to search for a file in a dr...
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    bbongrip
    9 years ago
    I finally got it! lol Thank you so much for you time and help. It has been greatly appreciated and a learning experience for me. I ended up using "//" as my path and it works perfect.
    Cheers!
    Kevin
bbongrip's avatar
bbongrip
Helpful | Level 6
9 years ago
I finally got it! lol Thank you so much for you time and help. It has been greatly appreciated and a learning experience for me. I ended up using "//" as my path and it works perfect.
Cheers!
Kevin
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago
I'm glad to hear you got this working. If you're trying to list the root though, the right value to supply is the empty string "" though.

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