Our company creates a Workspace folder for each user that is owned by a central service account.  I’m trying to build a script with Box CLI and PowerShell to delete a user’s Workspace folder after we delete their account to free up a license. 

Every time I try to get the folder details or delete the folder, I’m greeted with a d_ prefix on the item and it can’t find the folder. If I try to just get the folder, folders:get still attempts to add a d_ prefix and folders:items is probably incorrect.  I’m signed into CLI as our global admin account which owns this content, so it shouldn’t be a permissions problem. If I do a folders:items 0 as the given user, I see the workspace folder and ID. 

The code imports a CSV of folders that I’ve pulled already.  I’m still new to the CLI so obviously I’m doing something wrong but I don’t know why it’s adding a d_ prefix to the content. I’ve tried to add a Trim() to the folder ID, but the folder ID shows correct in the text output before the actual delete command. 

The Collaborations line was when I was trying to run it as my own co-admin account. Commenting that out to ignore it still gives the invalid parameter error above. 

 try {
        $Folders = Import-Csv $FolderList
        Write-Log "Importing csv of folders to delete." -output true
    }
    catch {
        Write-Log "Error reading folder data from CSV file $FolderList" -exception $_.Exception -output true -color Red
        break
    }

    # Delete Folder
    ForEach($Folder in $Folders) {
        $folderID = $Folder.ID.Trim()
        # Check if user exists and get user ID
        Write-Output "Attempting to delete $($FolderID), $($Folder.name)"
        try {
            box folders:collaborations:add --folder-id $folderID --user-id $DeletionUser --role editor
            box folders:delete $folderID --yes --as-user $DeletionUser
            Write-Output "Deletion successful."
            } 
            catch {
            Write-Log "Skipping this folder. Could not delete $($Folder). See log for details."  -output true -color Red
            continue
        }
    }