# Can't download files using both API Docs and REST API
**URL:** https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/cant-download-files-using-both-api-docs-and-rest-api/2347
**Category:** Connecting to File Storage
**Created:** [March 10, 2016, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/cant-download-files-using-both-api-docs-and-rest-api/2347 "2016-03-10T14:51:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@hedisam](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/hedisam)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2016, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/cant-download-files-using-both-api-docs-and-rest-api/2347/1 "2016-03-10T14:51:57Z")
Hey,
I can’t download files from directories either using API Docs or the REST API.
Download from /api/v2/files/ is OK but from an inner directory, it gets error 404.
- download “/api/v2/files/photo.jpg” --\> response code: 200 OK
- download “/api/v2/files/test/photo.jpg” --\> response code: 404 NOT FOUND
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### Author:  [@michaelnagy](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/michaelnagy)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2016, 3:37am UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/cant-download-files-using-both-api-docs-and-rest-api/2347/2 "2016-03-11T03:37:51Z")
I’m getting the same problem here…tried to put the folder path in public paths in service configuration, still no success
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### Author:  [@formerstaff](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/formerstaff)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/cant-download-files-using-both-api-docs-and-rest-api/2347/3 "2016-03-11T16:54:11Z")
I filed this as a bug yesterday. It looks like it only affects API Docs. Try making the call with another rest client, like Postman.
If the call doesn’t work, please share your error information.
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### Author:  [@michaelnagy](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/michaelnagy)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2016, 11:22pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/cant-download-files-using-both-api-docs-and-rest-api/2347/4 "2016-03-11T23:22:18Z")
It doesn’t only affect API Docs, I can’t turn paths into public paths.
Config:
> **[Screenshot](https://prnt.sc/ae41st)**
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> Captured with Lightshot
Postman return:
> **[Screenshot](https://prnt.sc/ae42k4)**
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> Captured with Lightshot
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### Author:  [@hedisam](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/hedisam)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/cant-download-files-using-both-api-docs-and-rest-api/2347/5 "2016-03-13T18:19:58Z")
Actually Postman worked for me. As I can see in your screenshot it seems your Postman error is because of missing X-DreamFactory-Session-Token since you’ve provided only one header.
But still not working in API-Docs and REST API.
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### Author:  [@michaelnagy](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/michaelnagy)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/cant-download-files-using-both-api-docs-and-rest-api/2347/6 "2016-03-14T03:04:51Z")
I’m trying to set public paths to files, and public paths have to work without any headers. Even if I set a path as public in the file service config the path is not becoming public. Why is that?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@formerstaff](https://community.dreamfactory.com/u/formerstaff)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2016, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.dreamfactory.com/t/cant-download-files-using-both-api-docs-and-rest-api/2347/7 "2016-03-14T12:21:09Z")
Public paths are for use in the browser, not for regular API calls. To access them them, you need to point your browser to
`http://yourdreamfactoryurl/files/publicfolder`
no api/v2