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

I really don't understand what logic Dropbox Sync uses for converting folder names to lowercase. Because in this example with direct output from the listFolder command, the first 2 folders are in lowercase, but the second 2 folders in the hierarchy are not. The folder hierarchy as uploaded to Dropbox should be:

/Share/Attachments/1EA9CC59-D0A8-4F82-8054-12DA1DC129C8/478660E3-A90E-4190-9B63-E99B46161B0C

but instead I get this:

DBFileInfo(path='/share/attachments/1EA9CC59-D0A8-4F82-8054-12DA1DC129C8/478660E3-A90E-4190-9B63-E99B46161B0C', isFolder=YES, modified=2015-02-02 10:43:24 +0000, size=0, thumbExists=NO, icon=folder)

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