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How to ignore folders during recursive listing
When I operate on a Dropbox Business account and list each member's personal folders, I end up listing the same shared folders multiple times. That is, if a shared folder is mounted within each membe...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThere isn't a way to ask the API to ignore specific folders, but it sounds like this question is similar to this previous one of yours. As there, the closest thing is the 'include_mounted_folders' option on /2/files/list_folder. (You set the option when calling /2/files/list_folder, and the behavior will follow through to /2/files/list_folder/continue based on the resulting cursors.)
Otherwise, you'd need to filter out the entries client-side, based on sharing_info.parent_shared_folder_id or sharing_info.shared_folder_id values that you've seen before. (The shared folder IDs are consistent across users.)
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