Are you doing a full delete or a recycling bin delete? If it's trying to shift the folders to the recycling bin that could be causing the problem with "the destination folder...". Try Shift+Del instead of just Del.
Next, I would try booting off of a Linux LiveCD which supports NTFS (Ubuntu should work),
and try deleting the folders from there. Since Linux doesn't have the same filesystem restrictions as Windows, it may be able to delete the folders even though you can't in Windows.
So, the word around the Internet is that the dropbox.py command-line client does not work with the Windows or OS X versions of the Dropbox client. I can attest to this fact (for OS X, at least), having labored in vain to get Dropbox synchronizing to an OS X Server shell account at my university. Dig as deep as you like inside the app bundle, you won't find a headless daemon that you can run standalone without the GUI like you can on Linux. The Dropbox daemon is inseparable from the GUI on OS X.
There used to be a Votebox ballot for this feature, but since Votebox has been disabled, the best you can do is go to this topic in the forums and pine away for this feature in desperation with all of the other users there. Unfortunately, to make matters worse, the Mac Dropbox client is also not AppleScriptable either, as noted here.
You may find this project interesting, though. Although it's not very Dropboxy in that it doesn't do two-way, automatic background synchronization, it can be run without installation on any *nix system with curl available (which, technically, includes a properly-equipped Cygwin installation on Windows). It might be sufficient for copying a few boilerplate config files down from your Dropbox account, or updating a file or two after you've modified them locally, but at that point, you're almost better learning to use Git.
Source: http://techblog.willshouse.com/2011/04/09/dropbox-command-line-interface-cli/
References:
- Dropbox forums topic "Pause/resume from CLI"
- GitHub.com andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader
- Cygwin
- Guided tour of Git version control fundamentals
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Obtaining the Dropbox Client
You can download the Dropbox client for Linux on Dropbox's Website.
This package will install both the Dropbox daemon (which automatically syncs files to a folder if you configure it to), and the
dropboxcommand line utility.Pure Command Line
Assuming you have the Dropbox client installed and in your path, you can get a link to a file in your Public folder using the command:
For example:
However, this will not work for files outside your Public folder, it will simply give the error:
For more information about the dropbox command line interface, you can read the unofficial wiki.
File Explorer Integration
Just in case you just want to avoid going to the website, instead of needing a pure command-line solution, here's an alternative method.
For URLs to files outside the Public folder, it seems you have to use either the website or use a plugin that adds Dropbox-specific functionality to your file manager. By default, Dropbox supports integration with the Nautilus file manager (aka GNOME Files) for the GNOME desktop environment.
If you have Dropbox integration with your file manager, you can right click on a file and choose the "Share Dropbox Link" item in the "Dropbox" submenu. This will copy a link into your Clipboard.
You can usually tell if you have Dropbox integration with your file manager if, when you browse to your Dropbox folder in the file manager, green check marks appear over synced files.
Depending on your Linux distribution, plugins for different desktop environments may be available in the package repositories. For example, on Linux Mint there are plugins available for Nemo (Cinnamon, package is
nemo-dropbox) and Caja (MATE, package iscaja-dropbox).