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Todd H.4's avatar
Todd H.4
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9 years ago

files/get_metadata has incorrect case for path_display

If I fetch the metadata for a folder and check the path_display, I get the mixed case path as desired. But if I fetch the metadata for a file within that folder, the entire path is lower case. path...
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Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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9 years ago

Thanks for following up with that Todd. That behavior is expected. Dropbox itself is case-insensitive, with attempts to be case-preserving. However, due to various specifics, the API can't always return the expected case for every path component. So, for any file or folder metadata, the filename/last path component should have the preserved case, but other path components are not guaranteed to.

We realize this is non-ideal of course and are looking into ways to improve it, but I don't have a solution to offer right now.

If you need the preserved casing, you'll need to build it up from the last component in each parent entry.

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