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Files ListFolder and ListFolderContinue slow
I have been using the API Files.ListFolder and ListFolderContinue to fetch meta data of all my files and folders. Functionally it is working but each request takes 3-8 seconds to come back with the p...
Thanks Greg for the helpful reply :)
As it is only the initial fetch that takes time I can probably live with it for now. I next need ot understand how to monitor for changes after I have a model of the content. I couldn't find a clear pattern in the API docs, is there one? My assumption is that I can hold the cursor from my last call to ListFolderContinue and periodically check this. How long are the cursors valid for?
Greg-DB
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Dropbox Community ModeratorThat's correct, you should store the last cursor you received and occasionally call back to ListFolderContinue using it to retrieve entries for just the things that have changed since the last time you called.
Cursors don't expire, but they can become invalid in some (relatively rare) scenarios, so make sure you handle ListFolderContinueError.Reset:
https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/T_Dropbox_Api_Files_ListFolderContinueError_Reset.htm
Cursors don't expire, but they can become invalid in some (relatively rare) scenarios, so make sure you handle ListFolderContinueError.Reset:
https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/T_Dropbox_Api_Files_ListFolderContinueError_Reset.htm
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