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Caram
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

Datastore how to get past sync errors?

I've just had again this bug about "delete for title: key not present". This happened on a production device, a week before launch, whilst recording a screencast. Sync stopped syncing. This is gettin...
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Steve M.'s avatar
Steve M.
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11 years ago

Caram, you were exactly right. Assigning a null to the title can cause this.

My advice for now is to just make sure you never try to assign a null title. This should make your app completely safe from this bug. We'll take a look on our side at possibly patching the SDK or even making a server-side change to ignore these bogus deltas.

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