diff --git a/doc/release-notes/issue-10523.md b/doc/release-notes/issue-10523.md
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+++ b/doc/release-notes/issue-10523.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+
+## Developer Updates
+
+### Writing External Exporters
+
+The getDatasetFileDetails data structure now contains "directoryLabel" (file path). See #10523 and #11618.
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diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/util/json/JsonPrinter.java b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/util/json/JsonPrinter.java
index 592a893083c..9a51eb8b745 100644
--- a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/util/json/JsonPrinter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/util/json/JsonPrinter.java
@@ -864,6 +864,7 @@ public static JsonObjectBuilder json(DataFile df, FileMetadata fileMetadata, boo
         }
 
         fileName = fileMetadata.getLabel();
+        String directoryLabel = fileMetadata.getDirectoryLabel();
         GlobalId filePid = df.getGlobalId();
         String pidURL = (filePid!=null)? filePid.asURL(): null;
         //For backward compatibility - prior to #8674, asString() returned "" for the value when no PID exists.
@@ -907,6 +908,7 @@ public static JsonObjectBuilder json(DataFile df, FileMetadata fileMetadata, boo
                 .add("tabularTags", getTabularFileTags(df))
                 .add("creationDate", df.getCreateDateFormattedYYYYMMDD())
                 .add("publicationDate",  df.getPublicationDateFormattedYYYYMMDD())
+                .add("directoryLabel", directoryLabel)
                 .add("lastUpdateTime", format(fileMetadata.getDatasetVersion().getLastUpdateTime()));
         Dataset dfOwner = df.getOwner();
         if (dfOwner != null) {
diff --git a/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/export/InternalExportProviderTest.java b/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/export/InternalExportProviderTest.java
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@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+package edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.export;
+
+import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.DataFile;
+import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.DataTable;
+import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.DatasetVersion;
+import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.FileMetadata;
+import jakarta.json.JsonArray;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.mockito.Mockito;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
+
+public class InternalExportProviderTest {
+
+    /**
+     * this is a unit-test for seeing why the directory-labels are
+     * not showing in the exported data and how best to remedy the case
+     */
+    @Test
+    public void getDatasetFileDetailsVanilla() throws Exception {
+
+        DatasetVersion mockDV = Mockito.mock(DatasetVersion.class);
+        List<FileMetadata> metadataList = new ArrayList<>();
+        FileMetadata metadata = new FileMetadata();
+        metadata.setId(1L);
+        metadata.setDirectoryLabel("some/directory/label");
+        metadata.setLabel("some-silly-label");
+
+        DataFile datafile = new DataFile();
+        datafile.setId(1L);
+        metadata.setDataFile(datafile);
+        metadata.setDatasetVersion(mockDV);
+
+        List<DataTable> dataTables = new ArrayList<>();
+        DataTable dataTable = new DataTable();
+        dataTable.setOriginalFileName("some_silly_original_file_name");
+        dataTables.add(dataTable);
+
+        datafile.setDataTables(dataTables);
+
+        metadataList.add(metadata);
+        when(mockDV.getFileMetadatas()).thenReturn(metadataList);
+
+        InternalExportDataProvider provider = new InternalExportDataProvider(mockDV);
+
+        JsonArray json = provider.getDatasetFileDetails();
+        assertTrue(json.toString().contains("some/directory/label"));
+    }
+
+}