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user44
Explorer | Level 4
7 months ago

How to get id of a deleted folder?

While building an integration with Dropbox I am running into typical situation of deleting folders at my app's end when a subject folder is deleted by the user on Dropbox. Via webhooks I am getting M...
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    iNeil
    7 months ago

    Hello user44, 

    You are correct that the /2/files/list_revisions endpoint will only work for files.

     

    There isn’t a way to retrieve the deleted folder's id with the Dropbox API. If you have the previous FolderMetadata, you can align it based on the path from the DeletedMetadata.

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iNeil
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Hello user44, 

You are correct that the /2/files/list_revisions endpoint will only work for files.

 

There isn’t a way to retrieve the deleted folder's id with the Dropbox API. If you have the previous FolderMetadata, you can align it based on the path from the DeletedMetadata.

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user44
Explorer | Level 4
7 months ago

Thanks!

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