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Dropbox online - number of subfolders and files in a folder, like file explorer shows
Hi,
I've been using Dropbox for quite awhile but am new to the Community discussions.
I've searched the Community for an answer to my question, but have not found one that answers the full issue....
This is basic functionality. Not having it makes me suspect whether the reason for the omission is concern that Dropbox is not backing up 100% of the requested files. Saying "copy everything back locally and then let your OS count them" gives 0% confidence that your system works.
This is no a hard problem to solve - it's not even a CS101 recursion problem. Whatever OS Dropbox is using on the backend already supports this functionality, so just let the Dropbox server's OS, not the user's, take care of the heavy lifting for you on the server side:
Linux = find . -type f | wc -l
DOS = dir /a:-d /s /b "Folder Path" | find /c ":\".
Boom. Done. Mic drop. But it has to be Dropbox.com that implements this, not users; no one wants all users to have OS-level access to the Dropbox server.