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dcooney
Explorer | Level 4
7 years ago

list_folder API not starting from beginning of directory

I'm building a mobile app for viewing the /Camera Uploads path and for whatever reason the initial query does not start from the beginning of the directory.   To explain more, my /Camera Uploads fi...
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Greg-DB
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7 years ago
There isn't an overall limit. If you're calling /2/files/list_folder/continue repeatedly until has_more=false and you're still missing entries, please open an API ticket with the details so we can check on it for you:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/contact

The following would be useful:
- the registered app name or key
- the user ID of the affected account
- the relevant code snippet(s)
- some sample missing file paths/names and a screenshot showing them on the web site for comparison
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dcooney
Explorer | Level 4
7 years ago

This is exactly what i'm doing :)

I will open a ticket. thanks Greg!

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