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I'm trying to use the SPSiteDataQuery to return the contents of several lists across a site collection. The problem I'm having, though, is that while there are only a few documents at the root level of these lists, the lists have folders containing large amounts of items, which causes the Query to exceed the List View Threshold.

I know that SPQuerys allow you to do something like 

query.ViewAttributes = "Scope=\"Recursive\""

to recurse, and removing that will just show the results of the root folder only. Is there a way of filtering out ListItems that are in subfolders with any sort of CAML query?

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What level are you trying to stop returning values at? Direct subfolders of the root folder? (ie: Root/Folder/Document.doc) Or subfolders of folders directly beneath the root? (ie: Root/Folder/Subfolder/Document.doc) – rjcup3 Jan 22 at 21:00
Direct subfolders and their subfolders - the goal is to only have list items in the root folder being returned. – user14330 Jan 22 at 21:04
OK, I thought about this for a minute to come up with the best answer I can. There is no way to filter this via a property with the SPSiteDataQuery. Your best bet is to try to refine your query more to return less items. – rjcup3 Jan 22 at 21:25
Alright, thank you. I guess then it'd be possible to perform multiple SPQueries, but I'm not sure if that's reasonable or feasible. – user14330 Jan 22 at 21:32
As long as you aren't querying across site collections that is a viable option. Just use another collection like List<SPListItem> and add the result sets. – rjcup3 Jan 22 at 21:35
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