Unable to see files in folders created with Windows Explorer

[rmaddy]

I have an iOS app that is using the google-api-objectivec-client (snapshot made in early September) to integrate a user's Google Drive account. In general everything works. A user can download and upload files, create folders, and delete files.

I have a report of one strange issue. One user is telling me that if they create a folder in their Google Drive account from Windows Explorer and add files to this folder from Windows explorer, then the files do not appear in my app (but the folder does). However, the files do appear if they view their Google Drive account using their computer's web browser pointed at drive.google.com. If they create a folder and add files to it from their browser, then my app sees the folder and the files just fine.

So I'm curious what could be different. Why would my app only see the folder and not files in the folder and only if the folder was created and populated through Windows Explorer?

I'm on a Mac so I have no way to test this myself.

[Greg Robbins]

This discussion group is just for questions specific to use of the Objective-C library.

For questions on use of the Drive API, please refer to https://developers.google.com/drive/support

[rmaddy]

I am using the Objective-C library. I'm using the google-api-objectivec-client library to access Google Drive. Is this forum or the one you linked the correct place for such questions?

I'm trying to determine what I might, if anything, be doing wrong in my code that would prevent certain files from appearing when I use the Objective-C library to get a list of files for a given folder.

[Greg Robbins]

The engineers familiar with the Drive API are in the other forum.

[rmaddy]

Thanks.