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Digitalhappy
Explorer | Level 4
9 years ago

files/search results seem to be too inclusive

My application uses files/search (with mode=filename) to find specific marker files with our dropbox structure in order to identify the correct folder to work with.   These marker files have uniq...
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dev1
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

I think I have fallen foul of this as well. I'm pretty sure up until recently (presumably 3 weeks ago) searching for the filename "ABC.pdf" only returned an exact match. But now it's also matching "ABC blah blah.pdf" which I don't want.

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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

dev1 If you're still seeing unexpected entries like that, please open an API ticket with the details so we can investigate. Thanks!

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