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A S.13
Explorer | Level 4
9 years ago

Case insensitivity inconsistent in metadata for folder names

I'm working with an app that is trying to sync files from its App folder within Dropbox and the directory structure is as such: /Apps/picpi/Ange-Art/2015-06-09-DevilsTower Because of the App, the...
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Steve M.
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9 years ago

"Utah J.", I was trying to help Brynn get help for what seems like a product bug that's causing him a problem.

I understand that the path field of an individual call to /metadata doesn't provide you the current casing of the full path. (You can of course walk back up the path and reconstruct the full casing if you need to, since Dropbox is case-preserving.)

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