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Bonetooth
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5 years ago

Asp.Net File Delete

Good Afternoon   I am trying to delete an uploaded image from my dropbox account via the api v2 on visual studio. I'm attempting to use Deletev2Async, however the path I'm sending is incorrect. Whe...
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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

I'm glad to hear you already sorted this out.

 

For anyone else who comes across this with the same issue, note that to delete a file via the API, you should supply the Dropbox path of the file, not the URL. For example, when calling DeleteV2Async, you can supply the Metadata.PathLower or FileMetadata.Id value as the "path" parameter.

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