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jrk
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9 years ago

Access deleted files

It seems it is no longer possible in the v2 API to do much of anything with deleted files. Their metadata entries contain no ID or revision information, they cannot be downloaded, their revisions can...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago
Thanks for writing this up. I unfortunately don't have any workarounds to offer here, but I'm sending these feature requests along to the team.

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