Python TypeError using Dropbox API move_v2function

Fantastic. I used rsplit with '/' and to pull the lower_path apart giving me the file's directory and the file name.

Then I was able to add some text to the beginning of the file name, concat the whole thing together to create a new_path and it works perfectly!

Thanks so much for your help. Just FYI - code below if you want it (I had a spark DF with 1000s of rows of unique data that I needed to add to the beginning of each file):

result = dbx.files_list_folder(root_path, recursive=True)

index = 0

def process_entries(entries):
    for entry in entries:

      if isinstance(entry, dropbox.files.FileMetadata):
        path = entry.path_lower.rsplit('/', 1)[0]+'/'
        file = entry.path_lower.rsplit('/', 1)[1]
        path_original = path+file
        global index
        code = sparkDF.collect()[index][2]
        path_new = path+code+'_'+file
        print(path_original)
        print(path_new)
        move = dbx.files_move(from_path=path_original, to_path=path_new)
        index += 1

        
process_entries(result.entries)


while result.has_more:
    result = dbx.files_list_folder_continue(result.cursor)

    process_entries(result.entries)

Hmmmm, actually, it seems to be running ok, but I've had to put in another if statement on has_more = TRUE

Even with the while statement, for some reason it was running the function twice. Any idea why?

result = dbx.files_list_folder(root_path, recursive=True)

full_list = []

index = 0

def process_entries(entries):
    for entry in entries:

      if result.has_more:
        if isinstance(entry, dropbox.files.FileMetadata):
          file = entry.path_lower.rsplit('/', 1)[1]
          if file.endswith(('.mp4','.png','.mov','.gif','.jpg')):
            path = entry.path_lower.rsplit('/', 1)[0]+'/'
            path_original = path+file
            global index
            code = sparkDF.collect()[index][2]
            file_new = code+'_'+file
            path_new = path+file_new
            sublist = [code,file_new,path_new]
            print(sublist)
            print(result.has_more)
            full_list.append(sublist)
            move = dbx.files_move(from_path=path_original, to_path=path_new)
            index += 1

        
process_entries(result.entries)


while result.has_more:
    result = dbx.files_list_folder_continue(result.cursor)

    process_entries(result.entries)

I'm not sure off hand what the issue may be, but calling `if result.has_more` for each `entry` doesn't look like what you'd want to do. Once you're inspecting a particular entry, it shouldn't matter if there is another page of entries to retrieve (since you've already retrieved the entry you're operating on).

I recommend stepping through with a debugger to see where the code execution is going and why, and what the variables look like at any point in time.

Perhaps what you're seeing is the new entries created by your own move operations? You may need to implement some way to avoid operating on files that you've already moved, or maybe retrieve the full file listing before you start moving files, depending on exactly what you want your program to do and how.

Hmmmmm, yes that makes sense actually, that the move operation would in a sense 'reset' the file in terms of where the cursor is, and thus might get included in a future operation.

Problem is the full file list is 160k total files across a number of directories, and even counting them all takes ~8 mins.

I think a workaround is to include an if statement to exclue any file that beginswith('str'), as all the strings that I'm appending to files begin with 'zas', but it's not exactly elegant. :)