Query an user if there are content in their account

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Sarah010

• August 16, 2019 11:21

Hi - I am creating an integration app to delete users that left the organization and there are no content in their account. How do I use Box SDK to see if there are content in user's account? Do I need to get a total folder count? Thank you. 

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  iancrew

  • August 16, 2019 15:43

  It's possible to see how much data a given account contains (the "space_used" parameter of https://developer.box.com/reference#users), but that doesn't include three things that may prevent you from successfully deleting the account:

  • Box Notes
  • Box Web links/bookmarks
  • Folders

  What most folks I've seen do is to either:

  1) Use the "Move Owned Items" call (https://developer.box.com/reference#move-folder-into-another-users-folder) to move everything owned by the user to be deleted into another user, then delete the original user

   

  2) If deleting a user with 0 space_used fails, enumerate the contents of that user's root folder and delete any items found before retrying.

   

  Hope that helps!

   

  Ian Crew

  UC Berkeley

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  Sarah010

  • August 17, 2019 05:41

  Okay Thanks for your help!

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