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gchadwick
New member | Level 2
8 years ago

List of Items in Deleted Folder

Trying to find an easier way:   I want to get a list of ONLY deleted items (files and folders) for a specific selected member.  Is there a better way then calling the:  list_folder function. Turning Recursive to true. Turning Include_deleted to true. And Looping through....

 

We have users with millions of files, but limited deleted items.

 

This is a VERY heavy API call with tons of results, just to find the deleted items.

 

is there a path "string" i can pass to limited ONLY deleted items?

 

I feel like I'm missing something. Any help, much appreciated.

  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    No, unfortunately there isn't a way to request the list of deleted items only, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.

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