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Batch deletion?
Hello all, looking through the current Core API docs, I find no way to batch-delete a set of files, other than to delete a whole folder.
This is causing performance issues with the application I'm working on. I started with Google Drive support, and they have a generic mechanism for batching API requests (putting requests themselves as multipart mime sections of a single request to a batch request endpoint)... I was wondering if Dropbox has an undocumented or v2 REST API endpoint for specifying a set of paths to delete...
Right now I have to walk through each file to delete, and make an HTTP request in-turn. This gets painfully expensive when there are 1000 or more files to remove.
I cannot just remove the whole folder, as some of the files in the folder may need to remain.
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- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Unfortunately, no, the Dropbox API doesn't currently offer any batch capability like this, but I'll be sure to pass this along as a request.
Holding down ctrl while clicking files or photos to delete would be wonderful
- Greg-DB
Hi Stanley, this thread was about functionality in the programming interface for Dropbox. Feedback for the Dropbox product itself like yours would be better suited in the Product feedback forum:
- Greg-DBQuick update: the API does now have support for batch deletes:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-delete_batch
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