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Bill T.16
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10 years ago

404 error reading metadata

I have been experimenting with the DBRoulette example. It is working fine when I create the app specifying access to the user's whole dropbox account. However, for privacy reasons I will want to re...
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Bill T.16's avatar
Bill T.16
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Greg,

Thanks for the response. I did just figure out my problem. The uncertainty was what the photosRoot should be in the case of a folder permissions app. 

[self.restClient loadMetadata:photosRoot withHash:photosHash];

I had assumed it would be either "/Photos" or "/Apps/Photos" or maybe "Photos". Instead, it appears you specify "/" in this case and the rest is assumed. With "/" as the root it appears to be accessing the directory correctly.

Possibly I missed this in the documentation but if not, you might consider clarifying it in the docs.

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