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acschg
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6 months ago

Restore (inadvertently) deleted folder associated with Dropbox App

Hello,   I'm seeking help with a recent problem that has arisen with an App (built on the Dropbox .NET SDK, running as a part of cloud-hosted Windows Service, and using a long-lived refresh token...
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    6 months ago

    The Dropbox API and the Dropbox web site both use the same filesystem data, so it's not expected that you'd see a different state (e.g., deleted or not deleted) for the same item at the same time across the two interfaces. Can you double check you're looking at the same item in both places? For instance, you can call GetCurrentAccountAsync to check which account you're connected to on the API, and use the account drop-down menu in the top right to see which account you're signed in to on the web site.

     

    Keep in mind that app folders are unique to each app-account pair. Different apps in the same account would have different app folders, and the same app connected to multiple accounts would have a separate app folder for each account.

     

    In any case, while you can't restore an entire folder and its contents using the API, you can create a folder at a path using CreateFolderV2Async, and restore any specific desired file (e.g., under that path) using RestoreAsync. And while the Dropbox API doesn't offer an API call to return information about which app folder it's operating in (since apps with the app folder access type aren't supposed to be able to access any information above the root of their app folder), creating a folder would be a good way to test which app folder you're connected to (e.g., when comparing to the web site).

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