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Richard T. S.'s avatar
Richard T. S.
New member | Level 2
10 years ago

How to Undelete a File via the API

I tried to  do a restore ... that did not seem to work. Is undelete only available via the Web interface ?
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Richard T. S.'s avatar
Richard T. S.
New member | Level 2
10 years ago

I can't believe this bit me again. The first time was with the Android V1 API. Now with the .NET API

The Scenario:

From the WebPage Access I delete a file.

Then from the API I detect the file does not exist (Fails on the GetMetadata request for the path.)

So I check to see if I can restore by calling ListRevisions. It shows file is deleted. I get 3 back FileMetadata entries: (Deleted, MostRecent, Orignal).

If I try yo restore the Delete file it fails ... indicating ivalid revision ...  but there is NOTHING in the FileMetaData that indicates the first entry is Deleted ... i.e. should the IsDeleted flag be set ? 

I tried to use Files.RestoreAsync using the Revison from all 3 FileMetadata returned from ListRevisions and was not able to restore.

 

 

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