Download folder with all content recursively, Sharpbox

Question

So I set up a little app that I would like to use to download A folder from my public Dropbox folder and all the content within that to a vm.

If I try:

var publicFolder = dropBoxStorage.GetFolder("/Public");
string targetFile = @"C:\Users\Michael\";
dropBoxStorage.DownloadFile(publicFolder,@"WS",targetFile);

WS if the Folder with all the content that I would like to download.

However when i run the code I get:

Answer 1

SharpBox does not support downloading folders. I took the time and wrote a function which should download the folder recursively. (haven't tested it though).

string remoteDirName = @"/Public/WS";
string targetDir = @"C:\Users\Michael\";
var remoteDir = dropBoxStorage.GetFolder(remoteDirName);

public static DownloadFolder(CloudStorage dropBoxStorage,ICloudDirectoryEntry remoteDir, string targetDir)
{

    foreach (ICloudFileSystemEntry fsentry in remoteDir)
    {
        if (fsentry is ICloudDirectoryEntry)
        {
            DownloadFolder(dropBoxStorage, fsentry, Path.Combine(targetDir, fsentry.Name));
        }
        else
        {
            dropBoxStorage.DownloadFile(remoteDir,fsentry.Name,Path.Combine(targetDir, fsentry.Name));
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

It works fine with below code also..

var PublicFolder = dropBoxStorage.GetFolder("/Public");
 if (PublicFolder != null && PublicFolder.ToList().Count > 0)
                {
 DownloadFolder(dropBoxStorage, PublicFolder as ICloudDirectoryEntry, targetPath);
}



public static void DownloadFolder(CloudStorage dropBoxStorage, ICloudDirectoryEntry remoteDir, string targetDir)
    {
        foreach (var fof in remoteDir.ToList())
        {

            if (fof is ICloudDirectoryEntry)
            {
                DirectoryInfo newDir = new DirectoryInfo(Path.Combine(targetDir, fof.Name));
                if (!newDir.Exists)
                {
                    Directory.CreateDirectory(Path.Combine(targetDir, fof.Name));
                }

                DownloadFolder(dropBoxStorage, fof as ICloudDirectoryEntry, Path.Combine(targetDir, fof.Name));
            }
            else
            {
                dropBoxStorage.DownloadFile(remoteDir, fof.Name, Path.Combine(targetDir));
            }

        }
    }