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Nathan P.9
10 years agoNew member | Level 1
Python files_search return empty?
Not sure what's happening but I'm working on a little python tool to look up a file by name in a given dropbox. I can do a files_list_folder fine and see the results:
dbx.files_list_folder('') Lis...
Nathan P.9
10 years agoNew member | Level 1
Thanks Gregory; I was just a bit surprised by this delay especially comparing it to the sync operation when looking at files/folders uploaded in the Dropbox App on multiple Windows system. Both systems showed the files as synced but search was still returning empty which is what started my concern that I had hit a possible bug :)
My tool is trying to walk through a heirarchy to find a particular file by name (I wish I could do by MD5 or SHA1 as well but that doesn't seem to be supported) and I would hate to have to walk through the user's entire dropbox to find a particular file (or multiple instances of that file) as that seems extremely expensive. I will simply note that there may be a delay so users are aware.
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