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MogensBrun
New member | Level 2
1 year ago
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File ID is not unique

I have several instances, where File ID is not unique in my Dropbox account. Below is two sets of metadata including  “id”, “name”, “path_display”, “size”, “rev”, “content_hash”, “server_modified” fr...
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    Greg-DB
    1 year ago

    MogensBrun qpo is correct; file IDs are case sensitive, and in some instances such as this, may vary only by case. So, make sure you're you're always preserving the case when storing these values, and using case-sensitive comparisons when comparing them.

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qpo
New member | Level 1
1 year ago

Short answer, but it may help: IDs are case-sensitive. See "i" and "I" before the last "g" in your example

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MogensBrun
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1 year ago

Thank you

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