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MogensBrun
New member | Level 2
2 months ago

File ID is not unique

I have several instances, where File ID is not unique in my Dropbox account. Below is two sets of metadata including  “id”, “name”, “path_display”, “size”, “rev”, “content_hash”, “server_modified” fr...
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    Greg-DB
    31 days ago

    MogensBrun qpo is correct; file IDs are case sensitive, and in some instances such as this, may vary only by case. So, make sure you're you're always preserving the case when storing these values, and using case-sensitive comparisons when comparing them.

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Greg-DB
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31 days ago

MogensBrun qpo is correct; file IDs are case sensitive, and in some instances such as this, may vary only by case. So, make sure you're you're always preserving the case when storing these values, and using case-sensitive comparisons when comparing them.

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