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Get Size of a Folder
How can i get the size of a particular folder in DropBox using V2 call or V1 please solve this...?
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
The Dropbox API doesn't offer a direct way to get the total size of a folder's contents, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.
If you need to know the total size of the contents of a folder, you'd need to list all of the contents using /2/files/list_folder[/continue] and then sum up the `size`s for all of the files. (You can use the `recursive` parameter on /2/files/list_folder to request nested files too.)
Greg-DB,
Is it now possible to get the size of a folder?
or we still need to do it manually as you said?- Greg-DB
bellomsean No, unfortunately the API still doesn't offer a way to do this directly, so you'd still need to calculate the sum.
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