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    <title>topic Re: Cannot delete a folder with a '.' in the middle its name? in Dropbox API Support &amp; Feedback</title>
    <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/260474#M15159</link>
    <description>Thanks for the report. I can't seem to reproduce this issue though. The /2/files/delete_v2 endpoint is successfully deleting a folder with a period in the middle and returning the expected response for me.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Can you share a sample request/response that isn't working as expected, including response headers? Be sure to redact the access token of course. Thanks in advance!</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2018 16:06:18 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2018-01-15T16:06:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Cannot delete a folder with a '.' in the middle its name?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/260465#M15157</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;When I use the API to delete a folder with:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;PRE&gt;https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/delete_v2&lt;/PRE&gt;&lt;P&gt;If the path to the folder is:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;PRE&gt;/somepath/mydomain.com&lt;/PRE&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The folder will not delete. Interestingly, an empty json string is returned from the Dropbox API server.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I am going to call this a bug, because it states in the Dropbox API documentation that folders, that developers should avoid using a . (period) or a space at the end of a file or folder name, but not in the middle of a folder or file name.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2019 09:16:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/260465#M15157</guid>
      <dc:creator>Charles R.5</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-05-29T09:16:05Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Cannot delete a folder with a '.' in the middle its name?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/260474#M15159</link>
      <description>Thanks for the report. I can't seem to reproduce this issue though. The /2/files/delete_v2 endpoint is successfully deleting a folder with a period in the middle and returning the expected response for me.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Can you share a sample request/response that isn't working as expected, including response headers? Be sure to redact the access token of course. Thanks in advance!</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2018 16:06:18 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/260474#M15159</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-01-15T16:06:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Cannot delete a folder with a '.' in the middle its name?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/260642#M15183</link>
      <description>Greg. Thanks for the reply.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;When I try &amp;amp; delete:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;/somepath/mydomain&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;It deletes successfully every time.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;But, when I try &amp;amp; delete:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;/somepath/mydomain.com&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;It does NOT delete the folder and returns an empty response string. Not even an error or 'status_code' is available, so it is very difficult to debug. Any ideas?&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;I have repeated the test, at least 50 times, using different folder names, with or without the '.' in the middle of the name, and the results are the same, each time.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;So, the problem is, I cannot send you response, because there is none!&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Thanks&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Charlie</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2018 21:37:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/260642#M15183</guid>
      <dc:creator>Charles R.5</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-01-15T21:37:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Cannot delete a folder with a '.' in the middle its name?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/260644#M15184</link>
      <description>Greg. This is my fault. Hidden somewhere in the custom API library, I created, I check for the existence of a filename, by using '.', as a file identifier. I created this library some time ago, and neglected to realise that I might be using folder names with '.' in them. Problem solved...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2018 21:52:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/260644#M15184</guid>
      <dc:creator>Charles R.5</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-01-15T21:52:01Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Cannot delete a folder with a '.' in the middle its name?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/260647#M15186</link>
      <description>Just out of interest do you have an API directive that only deletes folders. So, that if a file path is sent in by mistake, the request fails?</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2018 22:10:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/260647#M15186</guid>
      <dc:creator>Charles R.5</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-01-15T22:10:25Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Cannot delete a folder with a '.' in the middle its name?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/260651#M15188</link>
      <description>No, we don't have anything like that, but I'll pass that along as a feature request.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2018 23:11:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/260651#M15188</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-01-15T23:11:36Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Cannot delete a folder with a '.' in the middle its name?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/260689#M15192</link>
      <description>Greg. Thanks. Expanding, on my original request. Although, it is possible to check the 'get_metadata' of the path to find out whether the '.tag' is a folder or file, &amp;amp; then send a delete directive, this is a little long winded. It would be great, if Dropbox could add another argument to the 'delete' directive, called 'only_delete_path_of_tag_type', with possible values of 'file' &amp;amp; 'folder'. This would be a really cool feature...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2018 09:28:10 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/260689#M15192</guid>
      <dc:creator>Charles R.5</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-01-16T09:28:10Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Cannot delete a folder with a '.' in the middle its name?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/260701#M15196</link>
      <description>{"error":true,"msg":"The token paramter is missing. Cannot authorize API request.","data":[]}</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2018 10:23:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/260701#M15196</guid>
      <dc:creator>noornoor12gmal</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-01-16T10:23:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Cannot delete a folder with a '.' in the middle its name?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/260786#M15203</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/576009"&gt;@noornoor12gmal&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;If you're having trouble with the&amp;nbsp;Dropbox API, please &lt;A href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/forums/postpage/board-id/101000014" target="_self"&gt;open a new thread&lt;/A&gt; with the details of the issue.&amp;nbsp;Thanks!&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:32:04 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/260786#M15203</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-01-16T17:32:04Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Cannot delete a folder with a '.' in the middle its name?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/270617#M15990</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/69756"&gt;@Charles R.5&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;I just wanted to follow up on this with two notes:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;- The team pointed out that if you want to make sure you're deleting a folder, you can specify the folder's "id" as the `path` value for the&amp;nbsp;&lt;SPAN&gt;delete_v2&lt;/SPAN&gt; call&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;- For the opposite case, where you want to make sure you're deleting a specific file, we added a `parent_rev` parameter to &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-delete_v2" target="_blank"&gt;delete_v2&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2018 15:56:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/270617#M15990</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-03-30T15:56:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Cannot delete a folder with a '.' in the middle its name?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/270694#M15993</link>
      <description>Thanks Greg. The 'id' feature is useful.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2018 07:34:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Cannot-delete-a-folder-with-a-in-the-middle-its-name/m-p/270694#M15993</guid>
      <dc:creator>Charles R.5</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-03-31T07:34:32Z</dc:date>
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