I tried to do a restore ... that did not seem to work. Is undelete only available via the Web interface ?

I was able to restore using the N-1 version. (i.e. the second revision returned from the revisions call) Might be good to add a comment or example on restore API on how to undelete a file.

/restore is the right endpoint. When you say it "did not seem to work," what do you mean? What did you try, and what exactly went wrong?

I restored using the latest version ... is the latest version the deleted version ? It return an error indicating the file did not exist. Maybe I needed to use the N-1 version.

I can't believe this bit me again. The first time was with the Android V1 API. Now with the .NET API The Scenario: From the WebPage Access I delete a file. Then from the API I detect the file does not exist (Fails on the GetMetadata request for the path.) So I check to see if I can restore by calling ListRevisions. It shows file is deleted. I get 3 back FileMetadata entries: (Deleted, MostRecent, Orignal). If I try yo restore the Delete file it fails ... indicating ivalid revision ... but there is NOTHING in the FileMetaData that indicates the first entry is Deleted ... i.e. should the IsDeleted flag be set ? I tried to use Files.RestoreAsync using the Revison from all 3 FileMetadata returned from ListRevisions and was not able to restore.

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Steve M.
Dropbox Staff
11 years ago
/restore is the right endpoint. When you say it "did not seem to work," what do you mean? What did you try, and what exactly went wrong?
Richard T. S.
New member | Level 2
11 years ago
I restored using the latest version ... is the latest version the deleted version ?

It return an error indicating the file did not exist.

Maybe I needed to use the N-1 version.
Richard T. S.
New member | Level 2
11 years ago
I was able to restore using the N-1 version. (i.e. the second revision returned from the revisions call)

Might be good to add a comment or example on restore API on how to undelete a file.
Leah C.1
New member | Level 1
11 years ago
Thanks for the suggestion!
Richard T. S.
New member | Level 2
10 years ago
I can't believe this bit me again. The first time was with the Android V1 API. Now with the .NET API

The Scenario:

From the WebPage Access I delete a file.

Then from the API I detect the file does not exist (Fails on the GetMetadata request for the path.)

So I check to see if I can restore by calling ListRevisions. It shows file is deleted. I get 3 back FileMetadata entries: (Deleted, MostRecent, Orignal).

If I try yo restore the Delete file it fails ... indicating ivalid revision ... but there is NOTHING in the FileMetaData that indicates the first entry is Deleted ... i.e. should the IsDeleted flag be set ?

I tried to use Files.RestoreAsync using the Revison from all 3 FileMetadata returned from ListRevisions and was not able to restore.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
10 years ago
Richard, can you share some sample code/output for the issues you're seeing? Thanks in advance!
Richard T. S.
New member | Level 2
10 years ago
public async Task<FileMetadata> RestoreFile(String DBPath) {

FileMetadata result = null;

try {

ListRevisionsResult rev = await mClient.Files.ListRevisionsAsync(DBPath);

if (rev.IsDeleted) {

foreach (FileMetadata md in rev.Entries) {

try {

return await mClient.Files.RestoreAsync(DBPath, md.Rev);

} catch (Exception) {

PersistLog.e(TAG, String.Format("RestoreFile:Failed for:{0} revision:{1}", DBPath, md.Rev));

}

}

}

} catch (Exception) {

PersistLog.e(TAG, String.Format("RestoreFile:Failed for:{0}", DBPath));

}

return result;

}
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
10 years ago
Can you also post whatever error or unexpected output you're getting? Thanks!
Richard T. S.
New member | Level 2
10 years ago
Inspecting information from the limited feedback in the exception ... It indicates the Revision is bad.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
10 years ago
Your code is working fine to restore a file in my testing. Can you share the output you're getting (what you're logging with PersistLog)? That looks like it may contain some useful information for your particular case.