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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
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10 years ago

The main recommendation is just to operate in a case insensitive manner to match the Dropbox API. Also, whenever possible, just use the SDK for your file operations, as opposed to trying to sync with the local filesystem manually. The SDK caches files you open for you automatically anyway.

Regarding the technical details, there isn't really much to share that would be helpful from an API client's perspective. Dropbox is a large system with many components, so there isn't a simple answer here.

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