Dropbox – Gotchas

Service ID: dropbox

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3 gotchas across 2 resources

These are connector-specific behaviors and limitations to be aware of when integrating.

Files1 gotcha

allfilesAll

Dropbox does not expose a total record count in list responses. meta.total_count will not appear.

Folders2 gotchas

addfoldersAdd

To create a new folder at the top level in Dropbox via its API, use "root" as the parent_folder_id. For a subfolder, use "/ParentFolder" as the parent_folder_id, including the initial "/". Omitting this slash leads to a regex error from Dropbox.

onefoldersOne

Dropbox does not support getting metadata for the root folder.