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BOX API - move file issue

  • May 21, 2025
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Hi all,

we are developing a java tool that ingest files from box folder.

We would like to have a clarification about the scenario described below..

When a file is moved from a source directory to a target directory, we are observing that the last modification date attribute (returned by box API) does  not change even if  a file metadata (last modification date) has been modified.

Are we missing some configuration/settings or this is a behaviout of box API (a file moving in not caught at API level) ?

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     If I am understanding correctly, what you are describing is the expected behavior. Moving a file to another folder shouldn't change the file's modification date. A file's modification date updates when the contents of a file changes.

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    Murtza

    the issue is that we have a search engine that indexes Box contentes.

    if a file is added moved delede we need to know it and update the index . 

    we can only detect file addition . So if today one file gets moved or deleted on the Ge Box my index will not reflect this .

     

    thanks,

    Fabio 

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    Any update on this issue? How can we resolve this issue now?? We have same requirement in our project

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