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Ghislain Sommervogel's avatar
Ghislain Sommervogel
Helpful | Level 5
4 months ago

.NET API : How to read subfolders of team folders not assigned to the connected user?

Hello, I’m developing a .NET application to automate a few tasks in Dropbox. Specifically, I need to access team folders and their subfolders. For team folders, I’m using the `DropboxTeamClient.Team...
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    4 months ago

    When using the .NET SDK, using the TeamFolderListAsync method is the right way to begin listing all of the team folders for a team. Be sure to also implement TeamFolderListContinueAsync as well though, to make sure you get the whole list.

     

    And then for any given team folder (or any folder), using ListFolderAsync and likewise ListFolderContinueAsync is the right way to list the contents of the folder. Note that if you need all of the nested entries, you'll need to set recursive: true.

     

    But to access a team folder that your account isn't a member of, you will need to make some adjustments to the client, as you noted. You will need to:

    There's a blog post and accompanying code sample here about effectively the same strategy (for all team namespaces, not just team folders) if you'd like to see an example of it. The sample is written in Python, but the logic is the same.

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