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vewert
Explorer | Level 4
12 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 D...
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Steve M.
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12 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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