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JorgeGarciaSola
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8 years ago
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ASP.NET shared link to a folder. Is it posible to choose one item by name to download it?

So, i have a project in ASP.NET MVC. I have a shared link to a folder with lots of photos in jpg formatt. Using ListFolderAsync i can see the names of the archives(all the metadata, in fact) but sin...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    8 years ago

    No, unfortunately there isn't a way to get thumbnails for files via shared links, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.

     

    The closest thing you could do is use GetSharedLinkFileAsync, but that would just return the original file data, not a thumbnail.

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Greg-DB
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8 years ago

No, unfortunately there isn't a way to get thumbnails for files via shared links, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.

 

The closest thing you could do is use GetSharedLinkFileAsync, but that would just return the original file data, not a thumbnail.

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JorgeGarciaSola
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

Hello, sorry to bother you, any news on that feature request? It would be very helpful.

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    Greg-DB
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    8 years ago
    No, I do not have an update on this request.

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