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Cloud
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8 years ago

How to dealing with shared folder event by /ist_folder/continue API

When trying to dealing with shared folder event generated by /ist_folder/continue API, we noticed the folder changes reported by /ist_folder/continue API is same in the following two case and it conf...
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago
This is the expected behavior, and it is unlikely to change.

I'll be happy to pass this along as feedback to the team though. Can you elaborate on how this causes issues for your app?

You can check that the folder has been shared via the `sharing_info` included in the new folder metadata, in order to reconcile the deletion and addition, if you wish. Additionally, in the case of a shared folder, the `id` of the folder itself won't change (unlike in the deletion/new folder case).

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