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Rahul M.1's avatar
Rahul M.1
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11 years ago

How to check if a file or folder exists on Dropbox in the new Dropbox iOS SDK which is now available ?

I see some responses of checking if the file exists via DBFileSystem over internet, but this was in Sync API which is not available now. There is nothing I am able to find the new DropboxSDK.framewor...
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Steve M.'s avatar
Steve M.
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11 years ago

I think you're on the right track. You should call loadMetadata on the path you're interested in, and then the loadMetadataFailedWithError method on your delegate should be invoked with the error that the path doesn't exist. See https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/start/ios#listing.

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