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David R.84's avatar
David R.84
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9 years ago

get_metadata last modified user

The /2/files/get_metadata endpoint gives the following metadata properties for files: .tag, name, path_lower, path_display, id, client_modified, server_modified, rev, size It does not return the ...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

The sharing_info property is only set "if this file is contained in a shared folder". If it isn't set, that means the file isn't in a shared folder, so yes, that user would have to be the modifier.

And no, unfortunately API v2 doesn't currently offer modified time for folders, but I'll be sure to pass this along as a feature request. 

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