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jwpegram
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8 years ago

Deleted users MetaData and timeframe for purging deleted files

I'm looking for a definitive answer on a couple of things. 1. We were told while negotiating Dropbox services that the v1 API would not be retired until a solution to including deleted metadata wa...
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago

1. I'm not sure what your negotiations in particular entailed, but on the API side of things I have sent your feature request along to the team. I can't make any promise or offer a timeline of if or when that would be implemented though. I'm not aware of work or plans to implement that right now.

 

2. Your reading of the help center documentation seems to be accurate. For Business accounts, once a user deletes a file, they can no longer recover it after 120 days via the UI, so it sounds like you don't need to implement anything manually on the API for this.

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    jwpegram
    Helpful | Level 6
    8 years ago
    Thanks Greg!

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