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Robert S.138
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10 years ago

Creating a folder in Dropbox

Is there a sample of creating a folder in Dropbox from the Android Java SDK for Core API v2?  The example of uploading files seems to deal only with the root folder.  I have a background task that ha...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

Hi Robert, just trying to create the folder and catching the exception is a fine way to handle this. It's as efficient as possible too, since it just requires the one API call.

If you do want to check ahead of time, you can use getMetadata. That will throw an exception if the folder doesn't exist though anyway, which you would need to catch.

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