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rhernandez8305's avatar
rhernandez8305
Helpful | Level 6
8 years ago

Recently modified Direcories or files

How can I know if a directory or files has been modify before download it.
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rhernandez8305's avatar
rhernandez8305
Helpful | Level 6
8 years ago

Did you have an example, I got a diferent cursor value in each request although the folder don´t have changes.

 

var list3 = await dbx.Files.ListFolderAsync(string.Empty);

 

first request

list3.Cursor =  AAG88yckZh...

 

second request

list3.Curso=AAHI9m7iCl...

 

never is the same cursor value.

 

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Greg-DB
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8 years ago
You will get a different cursor each time, but the cursor itself doesn't tell you about the contents anyway. You should refer to the 'entries' list in the response to see what, if anything, changed under that folder.

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