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808phone
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

DBFILESWriteMode - please explain

Overwrite I know. Please explain isUpdate and isAdd.   For example, what if I want to try and write a huge list of files to a dropbox folder. Is there a mode where I don't have to look at every...
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Stephen C.14
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8 years ago

Dropbox unfortunately doesn't distinguish between write and update. If any part of a file has changed, no matter how small, the entire file is re-uploaded.

 

What `isUpdate` allows you to do is manage the case where *nothing* has changed in the file, in which case, no upload is performed. You do this by getting the metadata for the file, storing it's revision, then passing the revision up to the server upon upload.

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