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Hi everyone — I wanted to share a project I built for developers working with Dropbox in automation and workflow-orchestration contexts: conductor-dropbox, an open-source Dropbox integration for Conductor OSS and Orkes. The idea is simple: Dropbox APIs provide the building blocks for files and content, while workflow…
If your team is juggling lesson materials, student submissions, staff forms, or event documents, folder automations can take a lot of repetitive setup work off your plate. It’s a simple way to create more consistency without adding more manual admin work. Our team put together a short video walkthrough showing how to set…
Device Online dropbox automation Question or Issue I have set up an automation that first renames and then moves files from a folders subfolder. The renaming is supposed to just add "_note" to the file name. The problem is that in addition to adding _note, it removes most of the file name and all my files get the name…
Hey Dropbox devs! Need some help building a sweet file management automation tool. What we're tackling: * Custom API integration for automated file sync and backup workflows * Bulk file organization scripts with metadata tagging and folder structuring * Simple webhook setup for real-time file change notifications and…
I need a help on automating Transfer a copy process. I really need that certain feature to be automated. Specifically in python. However, as far as I know it is not supported in the API at the moment. Is there any suggestions or walk-arounds?
Hi all, I’m currently trying to improve how I handle client onboarding, specifically, the folder structures we set up in Dropbox. Right now, I’ve been creating folders manually for each new client, with subfolders for contracts, reports, communications, etc. But as the volume increases, it’s becoming really time-consuming…
Hi, I am using dropbox in n8n and have connected a dropbox team account. But I am getting 409 no_write_permission error. It was working fine a few days earlier but now I am getting this error for no reason. I changed nothing in n8n, nor in my dropbox settings. It was working fine a few days ago. It happened before too, and…
I have a directory with a very large number of files (several thousand) that I only access online. All of the files have names based on their date of creation (eg 2025-07-01-7:00.txt). I would like to organize these into subdirectories based on their date. From the dropbox website, I added an automation to sort these files…
Dear Dropbox Gurus, I am setting up a folder where members of my team will be able to upload data from an external system that we will use for other processes. What I would like to do is unify the file names and if possible have Dropbox automatically rename the files to a standardized format without relying on the user to…
I have daily files shared with me and i'd like to automate the following process if possible.... Copy files from the shared folder to a private folder Rename files (example below) ******.mp3 ----> ****** - ******.mp3 Thats it Thanks in advance for any replies :)
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