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Itai M.'s avatar
Itai M.
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4 years ago

createSharedLinkWithSettings() falls with shared_link_already_exist error

We're using the following code to create shared links:  sharingClient: DbxUserSharingRequests sharingClient.createSharedLinkWithSettings(path) DroboxCore SDK version: 5.1.1 Request ID:  aa92...
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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

Itai M. That's correct, if there's already a shared link for the item, you'll get that 'shared_link_already_exists' error. You can catch and handle that exception as needed. You can also use listSharedLinks to check for/list existing shared links.

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