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Brendan D.'s avatar
Brendan D.
Explorer | Level 4
11 years ago

Wrong character case of folder name when calling listFolder using Sync API

I'm traversing a folder hierarchy and have come across a strange anomaly in the letter case of one of my folders. When I call listFolder to get the hierarchy of my folders, everything seems normal...
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Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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11 years ago

Dropbox and the API itself are case insensitive, so in some cases you will see this behavior. (We realize this is non-ideal of course and are looking into ways to improve.) That said, the best solution here is to do a case-insensitive search in your code too.

Also, the last path component will always be the expected case though, so alternatively you can build up the paths manually on your side just using those.

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