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Alek S.'s avatar
Alek S.
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11 years ago

Downloading all the files in a folder using CoreSDK

Since you are deprecating the Datastore and Sync SDKs for iOS. I'll need to redo quite a bit of stuff. Anyway, one of the things I'll need to do now is: I want to download all the files in a partic...
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Greg-DB
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11 years ago

There certainly shouldn't be anything on our side causing this. If the API was going to intentionally fail a request, it would respond with an actual HTTP error code, but -1001 is just a client side error code.

The best practice is to only download files if/when you need them, but if you do need to download many files, the best practice is just to loop through and download them individually, limiting the number of simultaneous connections.

Is it always the same file that this occurs on? Are you able to see how long the request is in fact taking before that error occurs?

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