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notstrom
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3 years ago

Delete a Folder programmatically

How can I write a programm to delete a folder in my dropbox. There are all permissions set. The accesstoken is ok. I'm able to create a folders in my code. Unfortunately deleting a folder results in...
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Greg-DB
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3 years ago

The code you shared calls /2/files/get_metadata, which retrieves metadata for a file or folder, but if you want to delete something, you should instead call /2/files/delete_v2 (or /2/files/delete_batch to delete multiple items).

 

In any case, to debug a 400 error like this, print out the response body. It should contain a more useful error message.

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