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Deleted files metadata
None of the v2 get_meta endpoints return any metadata regarding deleted files even though the documentation says they do is include_deleted = true. How does one go about getting the modified time...
Ok, that makes sense. So what happens when the V1 API goes away? At the very least if the list_folder or list_folder/continue functions were to include the modified date I could avoid a second call, but even if they didn't we still need to get that information.
To expand further, what we are trying to do is manage the deleted files in employee boxes. For example, employee incorrectly gets stuff uploaded or has a large archive they choose to delete. Ideally we would like to be able to set via the admin panel the time to recover? (120 days on Business Plan). Since we can't change that to say 30 days, I'm looking at the files that have been deleted by a user and checking their modified date to determine if they are older than 30 days and if so permanently deleting them so they are removed from the users views at that point.
If you are taking feature requests, I'd suggest just allowing the recover time to be arbitrarily set by business accounts (30,60,90,120) to keep it sane.
To expand further, what we are trying to do is manage the deleted files in employee boxes. For example, employee incorrectly gets stuff uploaded or has a large archive they choose to delete. Ideally we would like to be able to set via the admin panel the time to recover? (120 days on Business Plan). Since we can't change that to say 30 days, I'm looking at the files that have been deleted by a user and checking their modified date to determine if they are older than 30 days and if so permanently deleting them so they are removed from the users views at that point.
If you are taking feature requests, I'd suggest just allowing the recover time to be arbitrarily set by business accounts (30,60,90,120) to keep it sane.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThanks for the feedback! Unfortunately I'm afraid I don't have a good non-API v1 solution to offer. I'm sending these requests along to the team.
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