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jjsk
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago

Folder download

Per  https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/download-entire-folders  I can download any folder through the dropbox web interface.  How can I do this via the API?    I'm guessing the web client ...
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jjsk
Helpful | Level 5
7 years ago

I just tried this API call and it worked great.

 

the only hiccup is an error when trying to d/l the root folder

 

"Dropbox-API-Arg": path: The root folder is unsupported

 

some files are saved in the application's root folder and the method seems to fail to get them zipped up

 

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Greg-DB
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7 years ago

That's the expected behavior. Downloading the root folder is not supported unfortunately, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. 

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