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Drive and Photo Service:UpdateFile

Last Updated:Mar 31, 2026

Updates the metadata of a file without modifying its content.

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Request syntax

POST /v2/file/update HTTP/1.1

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

domain_id

string

Yes

body

object

No

The request body.

drive_id

string

Yes

The drive ID.

1

file_id

string

Yes

The file ID.

9520943DC264

name

string

No

The name of the file. The value must be UTF-8 encoded and no longer than 1,024 bytes.

a.jpg

description

string

No

The description of the file. Maximum length: 1,024 characters.

VIP user

labels

array

No

The labels of the file. A maximum of 100 labels are allowed.

string

No

A label. Maximum length: 128 characters.

animal

check_name_mode

string

No

The naming policy to apply when a file with the same name already exists. Valid values:

ignore: Allow the duplicate file name.

auto_rename: Automatically rename the file by appending a timestamp. Example: xxx_20060102_150405.

refuse: Reject the request and return the details of the existing file.

Default value: ignore.

Valid values:

  • refuse :

    refuse

  • auto_rename :

    auto_rename

  • ignore :

    ignore

ignore

local_modified_at

string

No

The modification time of the file on the local device. Specify a UTC timestamp in ISO 8601 format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZ.

2019-08-20T06:51:27.292Z

hidden

boolean

No

Specifies whether the file is hidden.

true

starred

boolean

No

Specifies whether the file is starred.

true

Response elements

Element

Type

Description

Example

File

The updated file metadata.

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{
  "domain_id": "bj1",
  "drive_id": "1",
  "file_id": "5d79206586bb5dd69fb34c349282718146c55da7",
  "name": "1.mov",
  "type": "file",
  "content_type": "application/json",
  "created_at": "2019-08-20T06:51:27.292Z",
  "updated_at": "2019-08-20T06:51:27.292Z",
  "description": "image file",
  "trashed_at": "2019-08-20T06:51:27.292Z",
  "file_extension": "txt",
  "hidden": false,
  "size": 1024,
  "starred": false,
  "status": "available",
  "labels": [
    "[\"label1:1\", \"label2:2\"]"
  ],
  "upload_id": "C9DCFE5A82644AC7A02DB74C30C934A6",
  "parent_file_id": "3d5b846942cf94fa72324c8a4bda34e81da635a",
  "crc64_hash": "3574582125365864471",
  "content_hash": "EA4942AA8761213890A5C386F88E6464D2C31CA3",
  "content_hash_name": "sha1",
  "download_url": "https://data.aliyunpds.com/hz22%2F5d5b986facbec311ef844c25954f96821497b383%2F5d5b986f955410dd991646bb87c6b4e899eff525?Expires=xxx&OSSAccessKeyId=xxx&Signature=xxx",
  "thumbnail": "https://data.aliyunpds.com/hz22%2F5d5b986facbec311ef844c25954f96821497b383%2F5d5b986f955410dd991646bb87c6b4e899eff525?Expires=xxx&OSSAccessKeyId=xxx&Signature=xxx",
  "category": "image",
  "local_created_at": "2019-08-20T06:51:27.292Z",
  "local_modified_at": "2019-08-20T06:51:27.292Z",
  "revision_id": "5d5b846942cf94fa72324c14a4bda34e81da635d",
  "thumbnail_urls": {
    "key": "\"128X128\": \"https://url1\", \"800X800\": \"url2\""
  },
  "image_media_metadata": {
    "time": "2006-01-02T15:04:05.000Z07:00",
    "width": 1024,
    "height": 1024,
    "location": "30.185453,120.218522",
    "country": "China\n",
    "province": "Zhejiang\n",
    "city": "Hangzhou\n",
    "district": "Binjiang District\n",
    "township": "Xixing Street\n",
    "address_line": "Jiangling Road, Xixing Street, Binjiang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang\n",
    "image_tags": [
      {
        "confidence": 0.98,
        "parent_name": "sport",
        "name": "basketball",
        "tag_level": 3,
        "source": "play basketball",
        "centric_score": 0.877
      }
    ],
    "faces": "[{\"FaceId\":\"a9a66a86-73dd-4c95-8b79-1d8a49db5226\",\"GroupId\":\"Cluster-e3b7fb52-22b3-44f2-9746-8c1804bd6af0\",\"FaceConfidence\":0.999,\"Age\":13,\"AgeConfidence\":4,\"Gender\":\"female\",\"GenderConfidence\":1,\"Emotion\":\"none\",\"EmotionConfidence\":0.672,\"FaceAttributes\":{\"Mask\":\"none\",\"MaskConfidence\":0.894,\"Beard\":\"none\",\"BeardConfidence\":0.997,\"Glasses\":\"none\",\"GlassesConfidence\":0.999,\"Mouth\":\"close\",\"MouthConfidence\":0.937,\"Hat\":\"none\",\"HatConfidence\":0.998,\"HeadPose\":{\"Pitch\":10.684,\"Roll\":-10.707,\"Yaw\":-20.094},\"FaceBoundary\":{\"Width\":457,\"Height\":687,\"Top\":1324,\"Left\":1356}}}]",
    "faces_thumbnail": [
      {
        "face_id": "a9a66a86-73dd-4c95-8b79-1d8a49db5226",
        "face_group_id": "Cluster-e3b7fb52-22b3-44f2-9746-8c1804bd6af0",
        "face_thumbnail": "https://pds-domain.region.aliyuncs.com/QieGeH98%2F1001%2F63e5e551ee621482ab934a0687c6cda75fc07864%2F642a8a40c00f1ad379df421694713ee65170f09b?security-token=CAIS%2BgF1q6Ft5B2yfSjIr5bjHPCNnrdR8aSaSW7woVlmVd1Bt5HorDz2IHpPfHdoBe0btvU%2BlWxX6fwZlq5rR4QAXlDfNSyFeX20qFHPWZHInuDox55m4cTXNAr%2BIhr%2F29CoEIedZdjBe%2FCrRknZnytou9XTfimjWFrXWv%2Fgy%2BQQDLItUxK%2FcCBNCfpPOwJms7V6D3bKMuu3OROY6Qi5TmgQ41En1DIlt%2FXuk5DCtkqB12eXkLFF%2B97DRbG%2FdNRpMZtFVNO44fd7bKKp0lQLsUMSqv8q0fEcqGaW4o7CWQJLnzyCMvvJ9OVDFyN0aKEnH7J%2Bq%2FzxhTPrMnpkSlacGoABPMvZ8rSESUEP96Vbf%2Bk0JRg9Qb1MnaIJqWAgo8K6K0UP1CtqL2zrUtugpKKDHOYiKbq2O0S5yLUPVX5vBHqEi%2FFc7i6ZnHCMcXLJs4rKDKwRBEhovUXXlklq2q43OSVtLrXkBy9Xs1ers%2FhJhcxpNA0Vl3EWfJxa2BTylEdnLOQ%3D&x-oss-access-key-id=STS.NUVWJ9shpFfqKHAEY3YRmXTCN&x-oss-expires=1686455451&x-oss-process=image%2Fcrop%2Cx_1128%2Cy_1211%2Cw_914%2Ch_914%2Fformat%2Cjpg&x-oss-signature=jmhOz91Tww1ciMEwadDiioU7d93FDiBNr8s8mHyMqW0%3D&x-oss-signature-version=OSS2"
      }
    ],
    "exif": "{\"Compression\":{\"value\":\"6\"},\"DateTime\":{\"value\":\"2020:08:19 17:11:11\"}}",
    "image_quality": {
      "overall_score": 0.736
    }
  },
  "user_tags": {
    "key": "\"k1\":\"v1\", \"k2\",\"v2\""
  },
  "video_media_metadata": {
    "width": 1920,
    "height": 1080,
    "video_media_video_stream": [
      {
        "duration": "22.88",
        "bitrate": "108420",
        "code_name": "h264",
        "frame_count": "90"
      }
    ],
    "video_media_audio_stream": [
      {
        "duration": "7704.573000",
        "bit_rate": "129280",
        "code_name": "aac"
      }
    ]
  },
  "id_path": "id1/id2",
  "name_path": "root/f1/f2",
  "dir_size_info": {
    "dir_count": 1,
    "file_count": 10
  },
  "action_list": [
    ""
  ],
  "auto_delete_left_sec": 0
}

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