Re: Deleting a User and Transferring Their Content

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mboggs

• October 24, 2019 12:42

Is there a Box CLI option for this? I want to delete users via Box CLI, but I get the following error (Even when using --force): 

box : Unexpected API Response [403 Forbidden | 5c188tg89wi9wczr.08f7e40527beae53d2e3021d52f44329f] forbidden - User cannot be deleted due to retention policies. Please transfer user content first

But I can't find anyway to do this Transfer via the Box CLI. 
https://github.com/box/boxcli/blob/master/docs/users.md#box-usersdelete-id

So if I need to delete 100s of accounts, I have to do these one at a time in the GUI? 

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  Kourtney

  • October 25, 2019 07:42

    This will allow you to transfer all owned content from one user to another: https://github.com/box/boxcli/blob/master/docs/users.md#box-userstransfer-content-userid-newuserid. I believe you could use this in conjunction with a .csv to do multiple at a time as well by passing

   --bulk-file-path=bulk-file-path

  One column would be the USERID and another column would be the NEWUSERID.

   

  Best, 

  Kourtney 

  Box Technical Support Engineer

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