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Python files_search - Inconsistent returns
Hi I have a folder with the following files:
When I do the following search:
It finds just the file with modification date of 2021-10-28. If I keep running the same query, eventually it returns:
In this results we have both files.
If I keep doing the same query, the results will keep changing. It is not related with recent changes in the file, because this same problem was happening with a file that was modified more than 24h ago. In this example, it has passed 2h since last update in the file.
Can you assist on this?
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Thanks for the report. Can you try switching to files_search_v2/files_search_continue_v2 and let me know if you do or don't see the issue with that as well?
Hi Greg,
I still observe the same behaviour using the files_search_v2:
Note: Here the result is 3 or 4 because it finds some files that are in a "Backup" folder, while we specified the folder "RESEARCH" in the first example with `files_search`.
I believe I don't need to use the `files_search_continue_v2` as I have few search results.
Some additional data:
dropbox Version: 11.22.0
Windows 10 Pro Version: 10.0.18362.0
Python version: 3.7.7
- Greg-DB
Thanks for checking that! We'll look into it.
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