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ram s.3
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

search for latest file?

my goal is to retrieve a list of files for the last 100 newest files in a given folder for ex., Is it possible to use the search API for that? or there is a different API that can achieve that?

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    Greg-DB
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    10 years ago

    The order is based on how Dropbox itself works on the backend. As long as you process the entries in order, your app's local state will get up to date with the server state.

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