We are currently rolling out a change to the organization of existing resources in collections in Google Docs. This change is completely transparent to users of the Google Docs web user interface, but it is technically visible when using the Google Documents List API to make requests with the showroot=true query parameter or specifically querying the contents of the root collection. In order to understand this change, first read how Google Docs organizes resources.
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The change involves Google removing those resources from a user’s root collection that already exist within another collection accessible to the given user. That is, if “My Presentation” is currently in root and in the “My Talks” collection, after this change it will only exist in the “My Talks” collection.
We are making this change in order to make the organization of resources less confusing for API developers. This change allows clients to know that a resource either exists in root or in some collection under root. Clients can still retrieve all resources, regardless of which collections they’re in, using the resources feed.
The change is rolling out gradually to all Google Docs users over the next few months.
Developers with further questions about this change should post in the Google Documents List API forum.
