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jamesheck
Explorer | Level 3
7 years ago

list orderby api

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-list_folder wheres the orderby parameter to sort the results ?!!!
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jamesheck
Explorer | Level 3
7 years ago

about the "client-side"

what if a list of 30k file and i just want to get the latest 3 files starting with "z" letter
your suggest is: get the full list to get 3 files!!!
by order i can do 
orderby: name
sort: des
limit: 3
= done

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Greg-DB
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7 years ago

That's correct. Note however that you don't need to re-list everything each time though. Once you retrieve the full listing, you can continue to store and re-use the latest cursor you receive by calling /2/files/list_folder/continue, which will return only what's changed since you received that cursor. Follow the instructions in the /2/files/list_folder documentation to process those entries into the existing state.

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