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time4116
8 years agoExplorer | Level 4
list_folder/continue returning same ID for multiple files in folder
I'm having an issue downloading content from a team admins account (I'm using a dropbox buisness API with team member file access). There are several shared folders that this team admin is an owner o...
time4116
8 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Thanks chirstius. Please disregard the same ID bit. I was only calling the listUserFolderContinue() function, I think I may have made a mistake on the formating in my intial code post as the return statement should be outside of the while loop. Turns out that I was not able to return the list because I did not account for receiving a 500 error of which would not contain any json['entries'] and therefore brick the script when trying to add to the array. Will I need to implement retry logic or will the preceding cursors display any missed metadata?
chirstius
Dropbox Staff
8 years agotime4116 you should be good using the previous cursor as long as you follow the processing guidance from the list_folder documentation.
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