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Search is returning more matches than expected
First of all, problem I'm trying to resolve is checking if folder exists anywhere on dropbox, without knowing it's exact path. Only endpoint I found that work without path or id is search. According...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThere isn't a way to perform an exact string search, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I also can't think of another workaround for finding an item of a particular name if you don't know the id or path unfortunately. (You could list everything using /2/files/list_folder[/continue] and filter client-side, but that would be relatively inefficient.)
As for the behavior you are seeing, I'll check with the team on this and then follow up here once I have an answer for you.
Thanks Greg; is there still no way to search for specific phrases?
I try not to be the "this can't be that hard" guy, but surely if the search function can do fuzzy matches it could also do exact ones.
- Greg-DB
Elliott C.1 No, unfortunately I don't have an update on this feature request.
PLEASE add exact search!
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