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ethanfang
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Move API leads to temp permission removed for team subfolders/subfiles (eg. 5 to 30s observed)

Hi, We've developed an syncing app, and we found that if we use move api (eg. https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/move_v2) with Dropbox-API-Path-Root as root teamspace id to rename team folder under...
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    3 years ago

    Thanks for sharing this. As you found, the Dropbox back-end needs to perform some additional work immediately after an operation like this. There isn't a way to check on or disambiguate this programmatically unfortunately, so please add a sufficient delay/retry. I know this is non-ideal and can be slow, so I'll send this along as feedback to the team to see if we can improve or eliminate this in the future. Apologies for the bother.

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