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Jonathan H.2
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6 years ago
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Re: How to get last modified date for folders in Dropbox V2 API ?

Hi Greg_K. This is making it very complex and, I think, requiring lots of unnecessary API calls. When a new folder is uploaded, I need to make a playlist from the mp3 files and share it. So I d...
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Greg-DB
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6 years ago

To monitor changes on a folder like this, I recommend using the cursor functionality offered by /2/files/list_folder[/continue]. You can store the latest returned 'cursor' from any /2/files/list_folder[/continue] result, and then later call back to /2/files/list_folder/continue to get information about only what's changed since you last called. That way you don't have to process everything over again.

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