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Acquire save path from Dropbox saver
It has been discussed before that the JavaScript-based Dropbox saver by spec does not resolve with the path of the saved files. However, we have a use case that requires this (getting the path to a s...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffJohnWeisz Thanks for writing this up! I'm sending this along as a feature request to have the Saver return the file path, though unfortunately I can't promise if or when that would be implemented.
I'm afraid I also don't have a great workaround to offer. The search method you mentioned may work for you, as you mentioned. Note that the resulting file name can differ though, e.g., adding a "(1), etc." if there was already a file with the same name in the folder.
Alternatively you could try using /2/files/list_folder/get_latest_cursor before initiating the save operation, and then calling /2/files/list_folder/continue after it finishes. This isn't perfect as it may pick up other changes, but it would be a more efficient way to narrow down the entries and find the newly saved file.
(Also, I imagine there's a reason you want to use the Saver, but it's worth mentioning that if you have API access to the account anyway, you can forgo using the Saver itself to begin with, and upload the file data using /2/files/upload directly.)
