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VahagnGhaz
Explorer | Level 3
6 years ago

How to get meta data of current path

Hi ! I just need to get metadata of my current path, so I use  dropbox.Dropbox(my_token).files_get_metadata('') But I got this error  dropbox.stone_validators.ValidationError: '' did not match ...
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Greg-DB
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6 years ago

Retrieving the metadata for the root folder ('') is not supported. It doesn't have any specific metadata to return, but you can list its contents, as you found. Accordingly, attempting 'files_get_metadata' will fail. 

You can get the metadata for a non-root folder by specifying the path, e.g., like "/FolderName".

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    VahagnGhaz
    Explorer | Level 3
    6 years ago
    Okay, thanks for your reply.

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