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C. Tim
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11 years ago

How can i use Sync API to check if a file is deleted by other computer?

We are evaluating Sync API for our file sync function in a new app. Our app stores user data in local file system and allow them to sync the local file system with a folder in users' dropbox accoun...
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Greg-DB
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11 years ago

Do you mean you're trying to manually keep a local filesystem in sync with the Dropbox account? The Sync SDK wasn't really designed for that use case. Instead, it's intended that you'd use the Sync SDK as the source of truth for the files, where you let it maintain consistency with the server itself, cache files, etc. The Sync SDK just tells you when something changes, and not what exactly, with the intention that you'd just reload any necessary state from the SDK itself when building your UI.

If you need to know exactly what has changed, in order to manually sync with your own local filesystem, you may want to use a Core SDK with /delta functionality instead:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#delta

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