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Shilpa M.
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10 years ago

Rename File/Folder Without losing Version History in V2

Dear Drop Box Team, Kindly Suggest the way ,how we can Rename a File/Folder without losing the Version History in Drop Box API V2.    
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

File history on Dropbox is tied to the file path, so file version history won't follow files across moves/renames like this. The version history at the original path isn't lost though, so you can continue to query on the original path to get the old history. You can use the file's ID to track it across moves/renames though.

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