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So what is the use of a folder id?
I've been looking at ways to determine if a folder still exist on a dropbox account. I've noticed that there is two different ids being returned. One being just "id" and the other being "sharedFolder...
The 'id' can be used with various endpoints, in place of the file path. In many cases, you can just pass in the 'id' string in the 'path' parameter. For example, you can pass the 'id' as the 'path' value when calling /2/files/get_metadata. That's an easy way to check if a file or folder exists.
The /2/sharing/get_folder_metadata endpoint only operates on shared folders though, so it does require a shared folder ID, not just an 'id'.
You can get the shared folder ID directly from the FolderMetadata object though, e.g., as returned by /2/files/get_metadata or /2/files/list_folder[/continue]. That's included as sharing_info.shared_folder_id in the FolderMetadata object.
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It would be an api like sharing/get_folder_metadata/{sharing folder id} but in my case i would need to use the "id" instea of "sharingfolderid" because "sharingfolderid" is not returned in the files/list_folder api
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