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Explorer | Level 4

8 years ago

iOS API v2: possible to overwrite files at upload?

I'm using the objective-c SDK for Dropbox API v2 and trying to do something which should be remarkably simple: upload text files to the user's Dropbox folder and if any changes are made to the file o...

Greg-DB
8 years ago
You can certainly overwrite files using the API. For example, use -uploadData:mode:autorename:clientModified:mute:inputData: and pass in the desired 'mode' parameter, which should be a DBFILESWriteMode. You can use the 'overwrite' mode, but using 'update' with a rev value is safer, as it prevents accidentally overwriting new data the app wasn't aware of.

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Explorer | Level 4

8 years ago

Thanks! Don't know how I got lost here.

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