The documentation for WebService::Dropbox shows the way to delete a file is my $result = $dropbox->delete($path);. It does not show any support for the /2/files/delete_batch Dropbox API endpoint which does take {"entries":[{"path":"/foo/bar.txt"}]}.

So you would need to integrate to the Dropbox API yourself and consume the /delete_batch endpoint, and then you would have to get the payload right (not just a list of path_display values).

Or, if you want to use the Perl module, you'd have to loop through the list of files yourself.

UPDATE:
I forked the module and raised a pull request implementing delete_batch, see https://github.com/s-aska/p5-WebService-Dropbox/pull/22/commits/79cfc8edd0fd86e9e1424da0b455e119498e394c ... you could copy my changes to your local installation if the author does not respond quickly ...

Hope this helps.

Thanks for your idea, i decided to just loop through files to delete 1 by 1. and its working very good

Thanks so much

# Delete the collected files through loop
foreach my $file_todelete (@files_to_delete) {
    $dropbox->delete($file_todelete);  
}
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What steps have you done to find out where your script goes wrong?

You should look at what $result->{entries} contains, and also check the timestamps of these files manually.

You should look at what $one_hour_ago contains and compare that against $file_modified_dt.

We cannot do these steps for you.

I have made changes step by step. and clear some errors, and the script outputs good, but when i check the files if deleted. there still there yet i got script on bottom saying

Files and folders in '': Deleted 6 files uploaded in the last hour.

my $access_token = '';
my $key = '';
my $secret = '';

# Initialize Dropbox client
my $dropbox = WebService::Dropbox->new({
    key => $key,
    secret => $secret,
});
$dropbox->access_token($Token_id);

# Specify the folder path you want to list. Use "" for the root folder
+.
my $folder_path = ""; 

# Call the list_folder method
my $result = $dropbox->list_folder($folder_path);

# Check for errors
if ( $result->{'.sql'} eq 'error' ) {
    die "Error: " . Dumper($result);
}

my @files_to_delete;

# Print the file and folder names
print "Files and folders in '$folder_path':\n";
foreach my $entry ( $result->{entries}->@* ) {
    my $type = $entry->{'.txt'}; # 'file' or 'folder'
    my $name = $entry->{name};
    my $path = $entry->{path_display};
    my $server_modified  = $entry->{server_modified};
    
    # Define the format pattern (Z means UTC/GMT time zone)
    my $format_pattern = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ";
    
    # Parse the string into a Time::Piece object
    my $time_obj = Time::Piece->strptime($server_modified, $format_pat
+tern);

    # Extract the hour (returns a two-digit string, e.g., "17")
    my $hour = $time_obj->hour;
    
    # Get the current time in UTC
    # We use gmtime() because the input timestamp is in UTC ('Z' suffi
+x)
    my $t2 = gmtime;
    
    # Calculate the difference in seconds
    my $diff_seconds = $t2 - $time_obj;
    
    # Convert the difference to total hours (as a floating-point numbe
+r)
    my $diff_hours = $diff_seconds / ONE_HOUR;

    # printf("File $name uploaded  %d hours, %d minutes, %d seconds ag
+o\n", $diff_seconds / ONE_HOUR, ($diff_seconds % ONE_HOUR) / ONE_MINU
+TE, $diff_seconds % ONE_MINUTE);
    # prints File file1.txt uploaded 3 hours, 16 minutes, 48 seconds a
+go 
    
    # Check if the file was modified within the last hour
        if ($diff_hours > 1) {
            push @files_to_delete, $entry->{path_display};
        }
    
}

if (@files_to_delete) {
    # Delete the collected files in a batch
    $dropbox->delete({ entries => \@files_to_delete });

    print "Deleted " . scalar(@files_to_delete) . " files uploaded in 
+the last hour.\n";
} else {
    print "No files found from the last hour to delete.\n";
}

# Printed Files and folders in '': Deleted 6 files uploaded in the las
+t hour.
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