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vewert
Explorer | Level 4
11 years ago

Clearing cached files.

I'm creating an iOS app using Sync API. For testing purposes, I was wondering if there was a way to clear all the previously downloaded/cached files, so when I call openFile, it will download from Dropbox instead of using cached file.

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  • Steve M.'s avatar
    Steve M.
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    11 years ago

    You can uninstall and reinstall the app, or reset the iOS simulator.

    I believe it will also work to just unlink the user account and re-link again.

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    vewert
    Explorer | Level 4
    11 years ago

    Thanks, I checked the Documentation for unlink, and you are correct: "Once an account is unlinked, the local cache is deleted.", so that is probably the easiest thing to do.

    Thanks also for the tip about resetting the iOS Simulator, I hadn't realize you could do that, and it may come in handy in the future.

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