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tfrysinger
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5 years ago

Problems using Dropbox Javascript SDK with API filesSearchV2

I am using a root folder to temporarily store files in what could be thousands of sub-folders under that root. I want to write a routine that would run daily from my website to "clean out" folders th...
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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

To restrict search result to matching on the filename and not content, you should set FilesSearchOptions.filename_only to true. (By the way, your match_field_options doesn't look set correctly. That takes a FilesSearchMatchFieldOptions which only has a boolean include_highlights property.)

 

Anyway, the Dropbox API does not offer a modified time for folders, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

 

Likewise, FilesSearchOrderBy currently does not support ordering by name, but we'll consider that a feature request as well.

 

Apologies I don't have better news for you!

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